Sentences with phrase «blight of abandoned properties»

The Zombie Remediation and Prevention grants allow cities and towns across the state to maximize the impact of the law and to partner with the state in addressing the blight of abandoned properties.

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In order to combat the blight of bank - owned, zombie and abandoned homes, and to ensure the responsible owner maintains the property, Senators Klein and Bailey proposed new legislation to tackle the issue.

The questions to candidates largely focused on quality of life issues, such as trash pickup, transportation and city blight caused by abandoned properties.

«For many New Yorkers, homes are our single most important investment, but that investment can be undermined by the blight of neglected and abandoned properties,» Cuomo said.

The other bill would require lenders to take responsibility for abandoned, blighted «zombie properties,» and would also create a statewide registry of the zombie properties to assist municipalities enforce maintenance codes.

The agreement contains provisions to combat rural blight and «zombie homes» — or abandoned bank - owned properties — by expediting the rehabilitation, repair and improvement of these eyesores.

While the City of Buffalo is often the focal point of the issue of abandoned properties, it is not the only community in the County that is suffering from the blight and disinvestment in real property.

In a press release on April 11, Schneiderman announced that $ 20 million of funds from settlements with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would be used «to provide local governments with innovative technology to address and transform problem properties — including homes and buildings that are blighted, poorly maintained, vacant, abandoned, and in financial distress — that fell into disrepair following the foreclosure crisis,» as part of a program called Cities for Responsible Investment and Strategic Enforcement, or Cities RISE.

«Too many communities across this state are still plagued by the blight of vacant and abandoned properties, while at the same time suffering from a critical shortage of affordable housing,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

Nonpartisan, accurate, unbiased and credible research on key issues, from school vouchers to Internet sales tax to better ways to finance highway construction to ideas for eliminating the blight of abandoned, tax - reverted properties in Michigan's older cities.

«The intent of the statute was clearly to fight blight and properties that were being abandoned and bad for neighborhoods and home values.

«It shall be unlawful for any owner of personal property to fail or refuse to comply with the orders of the manager of housing and code enforcement to remove from the premises abandoned vehicles, appliances, vehicle parts and / or any other piece or pieces of personal property if such personal property is dangerous to the public health, safety or welfare; or creates an unsightly condition upon such property tending to reduce the value thereof; or is a nuisance; or invites plundering; or promotes urban blight and deterioration in the community; or creates a fire hazard; or violates the zoning regulations of the city.»

Vacant and Abandoned Housing and Property — The state of Indiana amended its provisions regarding vacant and abandoned housing and property by providing that a county, city, or town fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to establish a deduction period for rehabilitated property that has also been determined to be abandoned or vacant; specifying that there must be delinquent property taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as an abandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agAbandoned Housing and Property — The state of Indiana amended its provisions regarding vacant and abandoned housing and property by providing that a county, city, or town fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to establish a deduction period for rehabilitated property that has also been determined to be abandoned or vacant; specifying that there must be delinquent property taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as an abandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agrProperty — The state of Indiana amended its provisions regarding vacant and abandoned housing and property by providing that a county, city, or town fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to establish a deduction period for rehabilitated property that has also been determined to be abandoned or vacant; specifying that there must be delinquent property taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as an abandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agabandoned housing and property by providing that a county, city, or town fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to establish a deduction period for rehabilitated property that has also been determined to be abandoned or vacant; specifying that there must be delinquent property taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as an abandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agrproperty by providing that a county, city, or town fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to establish a deduction period for rehabilitated property that has also been determined to be abandoned or vacant; specifying that there must be delinquent property taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as an abandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agrproperty that has also been determined to be abandoned or vacant; specifying that there must be delinquent property taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as an abandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agabandoned or vacant; specifying that there must be delinquent property taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as an abandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agrproperty taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as an abandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agrproperty before it may be sold by the county treasurer as an abandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agabandoned or vacant property; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agrproperty; and relating to delinquent tax sales, the tax sale blight registry, mortgage servicing, sales disclosure forms and foreclosure prevention agreements.

More cities are adopting ordinances aimed at fighting the blight of foreclosures by requiring lenders to upkeep abandoned properties even before they take over title.