Sentences with phrase «blighted neighborhoods»

Baltimore's Vacants to Value program, a city initiative to address blighted neighborhoods, has reduced the number of city - owned vacant properties and helped spur economic development in some neighborhoods, according to a new report on the program.

They rejuvenate blighted neighborhoods, add to the tax base, and provide employment for a wide range of workers, contractors and suppliers.

Joint Center research has shown that home prices in neighborhoods with higher levels of improvement spending appreciate more rapidly, explaining why investing in blighted neighborhoods has been a national priority in dealing with the foreclosure crisis,» said the report.

Working on redeveloping blighted neighborhoods.

«Ninety - five percent of landlords do a good job because otherwise tenants move out and move somewhere else,» he said, adding, rental properties are not the cause of all blighted neighborhoods.»

− Executive Director, The Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation In its inaugural year, Prospect.1 New Orleans featured the work of 81 leading international contemporary artists in 24 exhibition venues, occupying 100,000 square feet of space which was widely spread over miles of the city's eclectic, historic, and some still blighted neighborhoods.

News reports often focus on Detroit's blighted neighborhoods, but Tyree Guyton sees them as untapped opportunity.

Canada dared because he was fed up with the «superhero» model, a menu of fragmented programs that help a few children in vast, blighted neighborhoods, leaving the blight intact.

If we are to stop squandering the potential of so many of our young people, educators must face the fact that schools alone will never be able to adequately address the disadvantages that children from poor families and blighted neighborhoods bring with them to school.

SURA is a public benefit corporation tasked with dealing with blighted neighborhoods and is not an official city department.

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.

Plus a fully operational toy bulldozer and tiny scale models of cunningly crafted blighted neighborhoods.

NYC's plan to build a jail in the once - blighted neighborhood pf the South Bronx is a key step to closing Rikers Island, but its future neighbors are concerned.

The site's history mirrors the battles locals fought to revive Park Slope in the 1970s, when banks and insurers refused to do business in the blighted neighborhood.

Three decades later, Park Slope is no longer the blighted neighborhood locals sought to improve.

Like the renovation of the 9th Ward in New Orleans, Gates is generating a transformative act within a blighted neighborhood.

Foreclosures blight neighborhoods and depress home values.

Not exact matches

Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»

He thinks: these are not responsible persons; they're just part of the neighborhood blight.

But there may be powerful health benefits, too, particularly for kids living in neighborhoods blighted by poverty and crime.

New housing, combined with the conversion of School # 17 to a community - school model and demolition of blighted commercial buildings, has changed the fabric of the neighborhood.

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.

And so, we need to ensure that we have grants and other funding resources available, so that we don't create more blight in our community and that we don't tear down what is really the incredible bones of this neighborhood.»

We will continue to be proactive in helping our neighborhoods bounce back from «zombie» blight,» said Kearns.

The city of Milwaukee's Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to designate an apartment building at 845 N. 25th St. as blighted.

HCR Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas said, «Governor Cuomo has demonstrated his commitment to enhancing the lives of New York families by improving living conditions, increasing access to homeownership, and removing blight from our neighborhoods.

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.»

Please show me or refer me to one independent study that confirms that a «Casino» opening in a NYS neighborhood or in New York City has ever bought jobs, as opposed to economic blight in the long run.

If approved, the land bank will provide us with another tool to combat the blight that has decimated many neighborhoods in Buffalo and has been creeping into the first ring suburbs.

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.

«In an annual report to Common Councilors, Wright pointed out how the agency over the last five years has not only cleared out blight in city neighborhoods, but has helped the city bottom line, bringing in millions in formerly uncollected taxes, as well as $ 19 million in private renovation investment of the 537 properties it sold.

City officials strongly disagree, saying the agency still serves a vital role addressing blight in poor neighborhoods.

«Where neighborhoods once had blight, they now have hope.

The $ 15 million Salina Crossing rehabilitated four existing buildings and constructed six new buildings to remove blight and trigger investment in Syracuse's Northside and Southside neighborhoods.

Arbor Housing and Development CEO Jeffrey Eaton said, «Arbor is excited to begin the redevelopment of a blighted site that has been in serious need of upgrade for many years and to support the City of Corning's Housing Strategy of revitalizing Corning's neighborhoods and increasing the availability of safe and affordable housing.»

«Combatting blight in neighborhoods is a top priority for every mayor in the nation,» said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A. Miner.

The Land Bank has accepted more than 1,200 severely tax delinquent structures from the city, the majority of which are blighting influences on the properties and neighborhoods surrounding them.

In doing so, the Land Bank improved public safety by removing neighborhood blights that regularly attracted crime, and improved the city's financial position by increasing the collection rate of current and delinquent property taxes.

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.

«This, coupled with new New York State legislation effective in December, will boost the City's effort to address critical blight in our neighborhoods.

Blight leads to the deterioration of neighborhoods.

«The cost associated with removing this blight may total $ 14 million and our goal at ESD is to remove the blight from the neighborhood,» Hoyt said.

«Reduce crime and gun violence and stabilize neighborhoods: A randomized controlled study: As much as a 29 percent reduction in gun violence in poor neighborhoods could translate into hundreds of fewer shootings every year for cities affected by blighted spaces.»

«Starting with the background of the blighted Hell's Kitchen neighborhood and the building's initial commercial failure in the mid-1970s, the story recounts how - in a moment of bold inspiration or maybe desperation - the buildings were're - purposed» as subsidized housing for people who worked in the performing arts, becoming one of the first intentional, government supported, affordable housing for artist residences.

It was on the site of an elementary school that had been vacant for 14 years, and had become a real blight on the neighborhood.

«In 2010, when 61 percent of parents at McKinley Elementary School in the blighted L.A. neighborhood of Compton opted to pull the trigger, the CTA claimed that «parents were never given the full picture... [or] informed of the great progress already being made» — despite the fact that McKinley's performance was ranked beneath nearly all other inner - city schools in the state.

Power Center Academy and the neighborhood began to see early successes through increased achievement scores and the elimination of community blight.

Seven years ago, at just 30, Powell was hired to lead Blaine, a bedraggled, struggling school in a neighborhood fraught with poverty, blight and transience.

These actions should be welcomed by taxpayers and homeowners alike — very few neighborhoods haven't felt the blight of a foreclosure and the resulting hit to the adjacent property values, and making those truly responsible face their consequences should lighten the burden for everyone else.