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46 Urb. Law. 877 (2014)
A Local Government's Strategic Approach to Distressed Property Remediation

handle is hein.journals/urban46 and id is 903 raw text is: A Local Government' s Strategic Approach to Distressed Property Remediation Jessica Bacher* Meg Byerly Williams** HISTORIC HOUSING PREFERENCES FOR SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES separated from other land uses has led to the decline of the central city as American families fled urban neighborhoods in favor of suburban developments during the last century.' In the wake of this development pattern and the recent Great Recession, cities are left to manage neighborhoods containing a high percentage of vacant, distressed, foreclosed, tax- delinquent, or tax foreclosed properties.2 These distressed properties may lead to property value diminution, as well as related problems such as illegal squatting and other crimes.3 To combat these ills, mu- nicipalities must engage in comprehensive efforts to stem the economic * Jessica A. Bacher is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace Law School, Executive Director for its Land Use Law Center, and Clinic Lecturer at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She chairs the Distressed Properties Sub-Committee of the Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee for the American Bar Association's Sec- tion of State and Local Government Law. ** Meg Byerly Williams is a Consultant Staff Attorney for the Land Use Law Cen- ter at Pace Law School. The authors would like to thank Michael J. Vatter, Fire Chief for the City of New- burgh, New York, and Madeline Fletcher, Executive Director of the Newburgh Com- munity Land Bank, for their significant contributions to this work. Additionally, the authors would like to acknowledge the following Pace Law School students for their contributions: Joseph Fornadel, Annie Kline, Amanda LaBarbera, Lisa Lee, James Lierman, Casey O'Donnell, Mallory Ress, Ann Marie Sayad, John Scherer, and Jimmy Zgheib. 1. Christopher B. Leinberger, The Next Slum?, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Mar. 1, 2008, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/the-next-slum/306653/. 2. See Sarah Innamorato, Vacant and Abandoned Properties: Turning Liabilities into Assets, EVIDENCE MATTERS, Winter 2014, at 3, available at http://www.huduser. org/portal/periodicals/em/EM Newsletter winter 2014.pdf. 3. Bus. & PROF'L PEOPLE FOR THE PUB. INTEREST, How CAN MUNICIPALITIES CONFRONT THE VACANT PROPERTY CHALLENGE? A TOOLKIT 2 (2010), available at http://www. bpichicago.org/documents/toolkitBP15-6-10-.pdf; NAT'L VACANT PROPS. CAMPAIGN, VACANT PROPERTIES: THE TRUE COSTS TO COMMUNITIES 2 (2005), available at http:// www. smartgrowthamerica.org/documents/true-costs .pdf.

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