Sentences with phrase «blighted homes»

The city's mayor, Dave Bing, plans to rid the city of 3,000 blighted homes by April.

Two years ago, Richard C. Davis was investigating the possibility of franchising his company, Trademark Properties, a full - service Charleston, S.C., brokerage with an investment division specializing in renovating blighted homes.

Though the Ravine neighborhood where the Cottage Place Gardens is located has many vacant and blighted homes, a higher crime rate than the rest of the city and a lack of recreational green space, he said it also «has a lot of promising characteristics that can result in a vibrant neighborhood.»

Cuyahoga County, Ohio About Blog The Cuyahoga County Land Bank is the most progressive entity in the country dedicated to eliminating vacant, blighted homes and properties and returning them to productive use.

Cuyahoga County, Ohio About Blog The Cuyahoga County Land Bank is the most progressive entity in the country dedicated to eliminating vacant, blighted homes and properties and returning them to productive use.

The Detroit Land Bank Authority has removed many blighted homes.

Cuyahoga County, Ohio About Blog The Cuyahoga County Land Bank is the most progressive entity in the country dedicated to eliminating vacant, blighted homes and properties and returning them to productive use.

Senator Timothy Kennedy says Bank of America owns 28 blighted homes that are sitting abandoned and vacant in the Town of Cheektowaga alone.

As a Southampton Town Board member, Ms. Fleming says she's helped to eliminate a budget deficit, thereby restoring the town's credit rating; focused on proper staffing and controls in the town finance department; and spearheaded economic initiatives such as the Farm Fresh Market in Flanders, which is run by teenagers and sells local produce, and the Youth Build Project in Riverside, which teaches young people about sustainable building methods while restoring blighted homes.

This funding supports legally designated Land Banks, formed under the New York State Land Bank Act of 2011, to protect homeowners and neighborhoods across the state by acquiring vacant, blighted homes and transforming them into community assets.

On Detroit's East Side hundreds of trees have been planted this fall and 57 blighted homes will be demolished by the end of the year.

Pakistanis have criticised Mr Zardari for going ahead with the visit despite the flooding blighting his home country.

JAMESTOWN - Two local developers are hoping their effort to fix up a blighted home on the north side of Jamestown will encourage others to make similar investments in the community.

Send a letter themed from a neighboor upset about the blight and health and safety elements of the neglected and blighted home.

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This is not news; the city's decay — the slow letting of its industrial heart's blood, the fleeing of more than half its citizens, the blight that has shuttered tens of thousands of homes and businesses — has been covered extensively by the media.

The city is home to a stunning 139 square miles of blighted or abandoned land.

Chairman of the Detroit Blight Authority, Bill Pulte is looking to get rid of the dangerous homes in the depressed city of Detroit.

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

P.O.D. screams anguished laments about urban blight and broken homes with enough streetwise agitation to appall many listeners.

The only blight for them was a 1 - 0 home loss to West Brom.

At nine weeks when I got back home, I went for a scan that to our surprise and horror, showed an empty pregnancy sac that measured 6 weeks, but I knew I was definitely nine weeks, and was told it was probably a blighted ovum (where baby is formed but doesn't grow properly).

In a statement, Croci, a former Islip Town supervisor, said: «For too long, vacant, unattended homes have been a blight on our communities and affected our quality of life.

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.

These homes are a neighborhood blight, attracting squatters and dragging down nearby property values by an estimated $ 53 million for more than 8,000 one - to - four - family homes across Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island and Queens, according to the report.

«For each zombie home that we cure and for each that we prevent with this legislation, we are saving entire neighborhoods from the corrosive effect of blight and neglect.»

Ben Carson, who took Trump on a tour of blighted neighborhoods in Detroit during the presidential campaign, including his boyhood home, has been chosen by the president - elect to oversee one of the government's main efforts to lift American cities as HUD secretary.

«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 multi-faceted plan involved both bricks - and - mortar proposals like a new police station on Broadway and programs to eliminate blight and boost home ownership in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

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.

Erie County, New York - Legislator Patrick Burke has put forth a resolution to reduce the blight of zombie homes in Erie County.

A vetoed provision in the state budget would have allowed for the demolition of as many as 290 blighted Milwaukee homes.

The bank here will use the money to demolish 56 «blighted» properties in and around the city, as well as to renovate eight other homes, according to a statement from the organization.»

When we remove blight and disrepair and replace it with attractive affordable homes, everyone wins.

«I believe we owe it to both our young people at home and countries abroad — like Colombia — who have been blighted by this unwinnable war, to look at different approaches that could cut the levels of violence, addiction and criminal profit,» he said.

The headquarters property had been home to a long - vacant supermarket, which became a source of blight, officials said.

Managing this market failure by using creative tools and new solutions to remove blight, encourage home - ownership and stabilize neighborhoods is crucial to making Syracuse more prosperous, beautiful and safe.

As a councilman, Barlow tackled blight by authoring a tax incentive for home improvements.

Four decades after hundreds of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal, Community Board 3 took an historic step last night towards finally rebuilding on five blighted parcels known collectively as SPURA.

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.

The Albany County Land Bank will receive $ 2.8 million over two years, funding the demolition of up to 20 blighted structures, the rehabilitation of a dozen properties, the initial stabilization of up to 40 homes, and the clearing of the same number of vacant lots for repurposing.

There are millions of people whose lives have been blighted by traffic noise outside their homes.

Instead, what would ensue was a blight — upon their home, their lives, their sanity.

Lydon is interviewed in various settings, mostly at home in Los Angeles, where he speaks candidly about being blighted by meningitis as a young boy — a traumatic and transformative episode that understandably still haunts him today.

it is said to remove their affliction, they need to kill the main werewolf responsible for the blight, which proves to be close to home for the two once they find out who it is.

As your custom avatar, you begin the game by travelling with your friends to try and find a monster egg in the wild, before the necessary plot drama occurs and you skip forward two years to your Rider trials, in a time where the mysterious Black Blight is starting to threaten your home.

Once home to a prosperous middle - class population, the area is now the scene of classic urban blight.

These Supercharger points liberate Teslas from restrictive journeys from home to work and back, or the need to wait for hours while recharging, something that blights many fully electric cars.

At 8.9 mm the LG Optimus 4X HD is no thicker than HTC's One X. Somewhat understated, its nonetheless handsome exterior — a design LG calls prism - edged due to the serrated side profile — should appeal to those who like me think that Samsung's new Galaxy S3 is blighted by its big home button.

Dick Francis, whose notable but blighted career as a champion steeplechase jockey for the British royal family was eclipsed by a second, more brilliant career as a popular thriller writer, died on Sunday in the Cayman Islands, where he had a home.

While consumer debt — loans to pay for a car, a vacation, most home renovations, or other consumables — is a blight on a person's potential net worth, it's not in the same category as asset - backed debt.