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Why Heirs’ Property is a Problem for Vacancy and Abandonment

Center for Community Progress

Speculators and developers can exploit vulnerable or disinterested heirs to gain an interest in the property and force property sales through a “partition” action, often acquiring the property for a fraction of its value and depriving families of both property and wealth associated with the land.

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sometimes kids play in it, but with supervision. There’ll be outreach and engagement and development of the plan and the design neighborhood by neighborhood, followed by bidding it out and finding contractors that can build it for us — often, that process takes two years,” Jon Larsen, the city’s director of transportation, said.