Sentences with phrase «of zombie homes»
The share of zombie homes has increased, despite the decline in total foreclosures, according to the latest data from RealtyTrac.
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Erie County, New York - Legislator Patrick Burke has put forth a resolution to reduce the blight of zombie homes in Erie County.
Brookhaven officials are planning to create a registry of foreclosed houses to keep track of zombie homes and make it easier to find their owners.
Cuomo and lawmakers in both chambers did agree on other important legislation, such as measures to address the scourge of heroin and opioid abuse and to attack the problem of zombie homes.
A statewide action to address the growing problem of zombie homes will benefit local municipalities.
Not exact matches
In recent years, the Sunshine State has become a kind of permanent American freak show, home to zombie face - eaters, and vigilante security guards who shoot black teens for wearing suspicious sweatshirts.
Every couple feels like a pair of walking zombies during their first month at home with baby (and often for much longer than that).
The law includes creation of a toll - free hotline for people to report zombie properties, a statewide registry to track them, and fines of up to $ 500.00 per day for every home a bank walks away from.
In July, Governor Cuomo announced the commitment of $ 10 million for a three - year initiative to create homeownership opportunities, make needed home repairs to prevent foreclosure, and fund a targeted zombie property prevention strategy for Buffalo's East Side and the Town of Cheektowaga.
Also at 10:30 a.m., Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano will join AG Eric Schneiderman as he makes remarks on zombie homes in Long Island, front steps Of Nassau County Legislative Office Building, 1550 Franklin Ave., Mineola.
A South Shore region dotted with affluent communities overlooking Great South Bay has a zombie home problem that is «one of the worst in the state,» a state lawmaker said Tuesday.
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.
Based on the office's findings of bank - owned, publicly listed zombie properties and abandoned properties, which are vacant homes with an unknown owner, the offices released a shocking report, «Nightmare Neighbors: How Badly Maintained Homes Damage Neighborhoods,» which detailed how each type of property drastically depreciates the value or surrounding homes.
DFS would also be responsible to step up their enforcement of these zombie and bank - owned homes.
Unfortunately neighborhoods have to deal with the consequences of these vacant, zombie homes while the banks hold up foreclosing.
Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.
The hotline provides added teeth to the recently passed zombie home legislation, facilitating compliance and a path out of the crisis that has persisted years after the housing crash hit.
«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.»
A South Shore region dotted with affluent communities overlooking Great South Bay has a zombie home problem that is «one of the worst in the state,» a state lawmaker said.
«Today's agreements are a welcome step forward in our fight to stop the epidemic of vacant «zombie homes,» which have burdened our communities with maintenance costs, lowered property values, and crime,» he said.
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.
The City of Niagara Falls, which in August posted mocking signs in front of five zombie homes owned by Citizens Bank, has filed a State Supreme Court lawsuit demanding that the bank either sell the vacant houses or repair building code violations found there.
There's also $ 2 million to help low - income families make the kind of repairs and renovations to their homes needed to avoid foreclosure and another million to prevent so - called zombie properties.
This week, Cuomo signed bills to combat the heroin and opioid crisis and to combat the issue of homes that have been vacated or abandoned, called «zombie properties.»
«This was particularly busy time — often with multiple events in a day — when the governor was negotiating a landmark end - of - session package in Albany to fight heroin addiction and breast cancer, crack down on zombie homes and release much - need money to build supportive housing for the homeless,» Azzopardi stated.
«The hardest part of this problem is identifying the problem upfront - who's involved, what's going on with each individual property - and then we can find tailored solutions for each individual property, as well as find ways to prevent more homes from becoming zombie foreclosures, so do more targeted outreach to homeowners so that people are aware of their rights and their responsibilities with regard to their properties.»
NEW YORK, NY — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced grant awards totaling $ 12.6 million to help 76 cities, towns, and villages across the state address the problem of vacant properties and so - called «zombie homes» — vacant and abandoned homes that are not maintained during a prolonged foreclosure proceeding.
On Long Island, the Town of Oyster Bay has banned the use of plywood to cover windows and doors on foreclosed «zombie homes,» in an attempt to eliminate the boarded - up eyesores in its neighborhoods.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants!
Yet lots of messy games are fun, and this is too — especially on those forays when you slaughter zombies by the dozen and rock up home loaded with loot.
George A. Romero's 1968 zombie classic Night of the Living Dead is finally getting an awesome 4K restoration releases on Blu - Ray in the UK via Sony Pictures Home Ent's Criterion Collection label.
Since then, the zombie movie has been a staple at the cinema and at home, with offerings ranging from the totally»80s classic Night of the Comet to the biggest box office zombie flick yet, World War Z. Because there are only so many ways to serve up brains, and with TV's The Walking Dead doing an excellent job of that on a regular basis, filmmakers are taking unique approaches to zombies and treating them as characters, not just mindless threats.
The single player mode is a tiresome series of missions to gather survivors and build a home base that can withstand an endless zombie horde.
After an attack destroys the home base of Big Boss» mercenary empire, the survivors of the attack are swallowed by a massive wormhole that drops them into a dusty wasteland swarming with nanotechnological zombies hell bent on killing every last human being on the planet.
Though most of its running time is confined to a massive shopping mall, Dawn's first third effectively hits home the widespread nature of the zombie outbreak, with scenes like the apartment raid by an overzealous SWAT team visually establishing the reach of the outbreak.
Pride + Prejudice + Zombies (Sony Home Entertainment) is a reimagining of Jane Austen's tale of relationships between lovers from different social classes.
And while the original Resident Evil introduced us to a few of the horrifying creations of the Umbrella Corporation, Resident Evil 2 was the masterpiece that kept us up at night with the fear that our quiet little towns might someday be home to a zombie outbreak.
PLOT: In the midst of a zombie pandemic, an infected father (Martin Freeman) has forty - eight hours to find a new home for his infant daughter.
Granted, a zombie - ruled hellscape offers plenty of disadvantages to the living, but it also includes the giddy promise of a world where the rules have been thrown out the window, and survivors can treat abandoned stores, amusement parks, and homes like their own private treasure chests — assuming, of course, that they don't get eaten in the process.
According to Deep Silver, the total number of zombies eviscerated in Home is almost 10 million!
But Tammy's slovenliness, minimum - wage job, and obvious lack of education — she doesn't know what «pattern» means — contrast sharply with details like the good housekeeping of her home, Faxon's zombie - like unflappability, and the mis - typecasting of Allison Janney in soccer - ready Solondz mode as her mom.
The others — Alexander's wife (Susan Fleetwood), daughter (Filippa Franzén), doctor friend (Sven Wollter) and servants — stand in the elaborately staged rooms of the home almost frozen, posed like zombie mannequins.
Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke's short film told the story of a father trying to find a new home for his baby in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, after being bitten.
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The zombie series began as a blatant homage to Dawn of the Dead, and that afforded it a certain camp value that made mowing down countless undead feel right at home.
This festivity of home security and zombie inundation will feature 10 single player levels and up to four player splitscreen to take on eight co-op levels with nine sorts of traps and weapons with which to effortlessly efface the affected.
Long heralded as Capcom's «other zombie franchise», Dead Rising finally gets an opportunity to shine as one of the Xbox One's launch line - up exclusives, and Capcom Vancouver has clearly bought into the mantra of «go big, or go home.»
One new type of mission my team embarked on tasked us with reinforcing one of the island's home bases, where survivors — who can easily perish if overwhelmed by a zombie horde — take up residence.
Taylor, who made the Crank films and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance with Mark Neveldine, playfully references several genres — cheesy family comedies, US high school dramas, zombie movies and the Home Alone franchise.
Cinematographer Christopher Doyle, following in Renck's serious - as - cancer lead, keeps things dour with a bug - zapper aesthetic of massively over-lit whites and swampy blue - greens, the former being aggressively employed in the home Nancy shares with suburban zombie husband Albert (Rufus Sewell), who conspicuously chugs diet Pepsi and tends to the minutia of his epitome - of - blandness airport - hotel miniature golf business, while remaining oblivious to his wife's furious masturbating to her own imagined demise in the computer room.