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Foreclosure Resources

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Campaign Reports & Presentations

Regenerating Youngstown and Mahoning County Through Vacant Property Reclamation: Reforming Systems and Right-Sizing Markets

February 2009

After several conversations and a scoping visit in 2007, the Youngstown-Mahoning County Vacant Properties Initiative (VPI) steering committee requested that NVPC design a work plan and proposal to conduct a regional assessment of existing vacant property policies and programs in the City of Youngstown and Mahoning County. The goal was to identify the challenges and opportunities facing the city and the county and propose recommendations for how to proceed.


The NVPC’s project work is organized into three phases: 1) an assessment report that evaluates existing city and county vacant property systems (programs, policies, and projects); 2) an action plan of next steps for implementing the report’s recommendations; and 3) pilot testing the system reforms through special implementation workshops. This report and policy brief cover the first two phases.
 
Youngstown Policy Assessment Report (1.5mb PDF)
Youngstown Program Brief (3.8mb PDF)

 

Vacant Properties: The True Costs to Communities
Spring 2005 (1.6mb PDF)
This report summarizes research on the costs vacant and abandoned properties impose upon communities. It also highlights local programs successfully recapturing the value in these properties.
Cleveland at the Crossroads: Turning Abandonment into Opportunity
June 2005 (1.5mb PDF)
This report offers recommendations based on assessments of existing programs and policies from Cleveland, Ohio.
Reinventing Dayton and the Miami Valley through Vacant Property Revitalization and Reclamation
(1.6mb PDF)
This report offers recommendations based on assessments of existing programs and policies from Dayton and its older suburbs.

Campaign Web Casts

The 2008 Federal Community Stabilization Grants – October 2, 2008

Streaming web audio/video of the full web cast (9.6mb WMV)

Campaign Forum Presentations

Ohio Vacant Properties Forum – Columbus, OH, October 24-25, 2005

  • The Vacant Property Challenge in Ohio: The Cycle of Abandonment
    • Doug Harsany, Ohio Department of Development (100kb PPT)
    • Joe Schilling, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech (20.2mb PPT)
  • The Ohio Story: Legal, Demographic, and Market Trends
    • Jason Reece, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University (1.7mb PPT)
    • Gene Krebs, Greater Ohio (3.3mb PPT)
  • Myron Orfield – Ohio Metropatterns: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability in Ohio (9.5mb PPT)
  • Tapping Into Available Resources
  • National Models Part I: Remedies and Opportunities

Additional presentations from the Ohio forum will be posted as we receive them.

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Land Bank Authority Forum – Flint MI, April 7-8, 2005

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National Vacant Properties Campaign Research and Policy Forum – Washington, DC, July 29, 2004

  • The Vacant Properties Cycle
    John Kromer, Fellow, Fels Institute of Government
  • Information Systems
    Dennis Culhane, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
  • Sustainable Reuse and Revitalization
    Alan Mallach, Research Director, National Housing Institute
  • Managing Vacant and Abandoned Properties
    Diane Silva-Martinez, Head Deputy City Attorney, City of San Diego
  • Bringing it All Together
    Sheena Wright, President and CEO, Abyssinian Development Corporation

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National Vacant Properties Campaign Kickoff Forum – Washington, DC, July 9, 2003

Other Presentations

Community-Based Code Enforcement and Neighborhood Revitalization session at the American Planning Association conference– San Antonio, Texas, April 23, 2006

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At the CDPN 2005 Annual Learning conference – Baltimore, Maryland, June 20, 2005

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Tackling Vacant Land and Abandoned Properties session at the American Planning Association conference – Denver, Colorado, April 1, 2003

  • Jeremy Nowak, President, The Reinvestment Fund (5.9mb)
  • Steve Green, Special Assistant, Washington, D.C.'s Deputy Mayor's Office for Economic Development (41.4mb)
  • Toby Millman, Vice President of Project Development, Eakin/Youngentob Associates (59.6mb)
  • Don Chen, Executive Director, Smart Growth America (320mb)
  • John Kromer, Fellow, Fels Institute of Government (2.1mb)
  • Lisa Mueller, Coordinator of Knowledge Sharing, LISC (512mb)
  • Ken Snyder, Executive Director, PlaceMatters.com (31.1mb)