Sentences with phrase «hundreds of abandoned properties»

To date, the first ten of these land banks have restored hundreds of abandoned properties to productive use.

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-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

With hundreds of businesses and homes destroyed by flooding for the second time in 2 years, the state government is considering enabling property owners to abandon some flood - prone areas, and is also calling for the construction of new levees and other protective infrastructure.