If you missed my session at the Community Progress Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference in Chicago on September 8th, here is the presentation I gave with my amazing co-presenters Emily Dowdall, Reinvestment Fund and Christa Stoneham, Houston Land Bank.
Karen Black
Can You Create a Culture of Property Maintenance in your Community?
Topeka Kansas is working with May 8 to reduce vacant and deteriorating properties, abandoned vehicles and illegal dumping as its first step toward safe and healthy neighborhoods.
Creating a Culture of Property Maintenance
Topeka has launched an ambitious initiative to create a culture of property maintenance throughout all of its neighborhoods. The goal for this initiative is an improved and thriving city where all neighborhoods are safe and healthy, and all residents live in decent and safe homes. The focus for this report, released in the first year … Continue reading Creating a Culture of Property Maintenance
Rental Code Enforcement in Philadelphia
To determine how Philadelphia’s current system is addressing the quality of rental housing, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, this report provides an in-depth examination of the rental regulation system in the city—and the corresponding systems in other major cities. The research found that Philadelphia’s regulatory approach is less comprehensive than those in some other places. For … Continue reading Rental Code Enforcement in Philadelphia
Philadelphia Rental Code Enforcement Report
Take a deep dive into Philadelphia’s system for ensuring rental housing is in “good repair, structurally sound and in sanitary condition” and compare it to nine peer cities.
Just Released Report: Evidence-Based Policy Making: An Analysis of Six Strategies to Stabilize Neighborhoods
New Fannie Mae report provides helpful research on what policy interventions local governments commonly use actually work to stabilize low-income and middle neighborhoods.
Evidence-Based Policy Making: An Analysis of Six Strategies to Stabilize Neighborhoods
In order to provide practitioners with evidence-based guidance in real time as they define a local response to the COVID economic crisis, May 8 and Reinvestment Fund analyzed the ability of six standard policy intervention tools to stabilize low-income and middle neighborhoods wrestling with the negative impacts of an economic shock. The policy interventions selected … Continue reading Evidence-Based Policy Making: An Analysis of Six Strategies to Stabilize Neighborhoods
Join us online for the Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress Housing Forum “A Housing Crisis: Finding a Place to Call Home” on October 26th.
Karen Black will be presenting “Preserving Aging Housing Key to a Growing Housing Supply” to start off the conference on October 26th at 9am.
The Power to Stabilize Neighborhoods: Research on the Impact of Policy Interventions on Low-Income and Middle Neighborhoods After a Macroeconomic Shock: A Post-2008 Literature Review
If you are seeking tools to stabilize neighborhoods after the COVID economic downturn, we recommend you take a look at this literature review May 8 Consulting just released. May 8 brings together critical research by scholars and practitioners defining how tools like demolition, code enforcement, land banks and First Look programs may impact different neighborhood … Continue reading The Power to Stabilize Neighborhoods: Research on the Impact of Policy Interventions on Low-Income and Middle Neighborhoods After a Macroeconomic Shock: A Post-2008 Literature Review
The Power to Stabilize Neighborhoods: Research on the Impact of Policy Interventions on Low-Income and Middle Neighborhoods After a Macroeconomic Shock: A Post-2008 Literature Review
Faced with the destabilizing impact of a global economic crisis (such as the recent Covid-19 economic shutdown), local governments and their partners often turn to a standard set of policy interventions to stabilize low- income and middle neighborhoods. While governments and philanthropy spend billions of dollars each year on tools such as code enforcement, vacant … Continue reading The Power to Stabilize Neighborhoods: Research on the Impact of Policy Interventions on Low-Income and Middle Neighborhoods After a Macroeconomic Shock: A Post-2008 Literature Review