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Title: National Vacant Properties Campaign


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National Vacant Properties Campaign
Creating Opportunity from Abandonment
  • a project of
  • Smart Growth America
  • Local Initiatives Support Corporation
  • International City/County Management Association
  • with support from
  • Fannie Mae Foundation
  • U.S. EPA

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Why Now?Vacant Properties Opportunities
  • Successful Programs across the Nation
  • New Research
  • Innovative Tools
  • Cities on the Rebound
  • Need for Affordable Housing
  • Attention from
  • Smart Growth Movement
  • New Partnerships Resources

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Campaign Goals
  • Build a Coordinated Movement to Support
    Revitalization Efforts
  • Provide Communities with Technical Assistance
  • Make Vacant Property Reclamation a National
    Priority

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The Benefits of Partnership
  • National Network of Experts
  • Technical Assistance, the Latest Research Best
    Practices
  • Communication and Coalition Building Tools
  • Campaign Seeking Change

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Upcoming Research
  • Survey and Analysis of Vacant Property Inventory
    Efforts
  • Quantification of Societal Costs of Vacant
    Properties

7
Campaign Stops
  • April 1, 2003--American Planning Association
    National Planning Conference
  • Summer 2003--Las Vegas, NV Technical Assistance
    Workshop
  • Summer 2003--Campaign Launch in Washington, DC

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Feedback from New Partners
  • Join the Campaign
  • Breakout Sessions
  • What are your top vacant properties challenges?
    (e.g. title clearance, etc.)
  • What would specific tools, services, products,
    and other resources would be most valuable to
    you?

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Vacant Property Challenges
  • Overall Economic and Social Conditions
  • Poor schools and high crime rates
  • Lack of incentives for rehabilitating abandoned
    and vacant properties
  • Title companies wont provide insurance
  • Low homeownership ratios

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Vacant Property Challenges
  • Getting Control of Properties
  • Lack of information about properties
  • ownership and whereabouts of all potential owners
  • title issues and how to obtain ownership
  • Clearing title and problems with adjudication
  • Difficulty of managing and transferring
    city-owned land
  • Low priority and lack of resources for code
    enforcement
  • Sheer volume of blighted properties lack of
    resources

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Vacant Property Challenges
  • Environmental Challenges
  • Abandoned gas stations are a tremendous problem
  • Expensive remediation for asbestos, lead and
    other hazards
  • Conflicting Visions for Redevelopment
  • Lack of consensus on reuse
  • Displacement after redevelopment

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Requests for Campaign
  • Help with Coalition Building
  • Getting regional organizations to collaborate
    with vacant property reclamation advocates
  • Outreach to public officials
  • Building coalitions of stakeholders to support
    environmental clean up of properties (abandoned
    or not)

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Requests for Campaign
  • Communications and Marketing Tools
  • Encouragement and inspiration
  • Talking points and message development for vacant
    properties, especially rebutting property
    rights rhetoric
  • Establish marketing for city and county-owned
    properties
  • Vacant properties road show and strike teams of
    experts who can travel to places to address
    specific problems
  • Information clearinghouse for potential property
    buyers

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Requests for Campaign
  • Information Resources
  • Highly accessible web-based resources
  • Model policies, programs, success studies and
    laws from different regions across the nation
    (e.g. model state legislation for title
    clearance)
  • Technical assistance on setting up land banks
  • Compendium of funding and incentives for vacant
    properties
  • How to guides about specific challenges, e.g.
    how to begin researching ownership in order to
    purchase a property

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Requests for Campaign
  • Technology Resources
  • Well-maintained and coordinated databases for
    correlating tax assessors, code enforcement,
    health departments records
  • Software for tracking down property owners
  • GIS mapping inventorying technology

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For More Information
  • John Bailey, Associate Director
  • Smart Growth America
  • 1200 18th Street, NW Suite 801
  • Washington, DC 20036
  • Tel 202.207.3351
  • Fax 202.207.3349
  • Email jbailey_at_smartgrowthamerica.org
  • Web www.smartgrowthamerica.org

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Coming Soon!
  • National Vacant Properties Campaign Roll Out,
    Summer 2003
  • Web Site www.vacantproperties.org
  • THANKS
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