Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties
Center for Community Progress
JULY 20, 2023
Inequitable, inefficient, and ineffective laws and practices feed a cycle of poverty and disinvestment that results in property abandonment and make it harder to put properties back to equitable reuse. From 2010-2019, Franklin County, Ohio overvalued homes in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods by as much as 50 percent.
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