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Friday is the last chance for Baltimore homeowners to pay off delinquent property taxes before being put on the city’s annual tax sale list, but housing advocates are calling on the mayor to suspend the sale and for the state to use COVID relief funds to help delinquent taxpayers.

If local officials want to start the uphill fight to combat blight and begin revitalizing their communities, multiple speakers at a “blight boot camp” held Friday at Westmoreland County Community College said they’ve got to start on the ground. Multiple speakers, including Christy Bean Rowing, executive director of the Washington

Sapna K. Jain is an attorney in the Boston, Massachusetts, office Jackson Lewis P.C. representing employers in workplace law matters, in Federal and State Court

In the 1970s, the city created a new generation of homesteaders by practically giving away vacant homes. Now, the idea has been revitalized by a city councilor. But not everyone is convinced it will work.

Westmoreland officials believe there are more than 1,200 dilapidated buildings scattered throughout the county’s 65 municipalities and next month will kick start an effort to remove that blight. The county’s Redevelopment Authority will conduct a daylong “boot camp” April 22 at Westmoreland County Community College for local leaders to address

With federal pandemic aid on offer for revitalization, some local governments are using empty parcels to respond to local needs

With Proposal N, the City of Detroit says it's knocked down or stabilized over 1,500 properties, giving neighbors some hope.

With Proposal N, the City of Detroit says it's knocked down or stabilized over 1,500 properties, giving neighbors some hope.

With federal pandemic aid on offer for revitalization, some local governments are using empty parcels to respond to local needs

When two Cleveland-area nonprofits, MetroHealth and MAGNET, embarked on major building projects, they also set the lofty goal of going green. They used deconstruction, or the practice of carefully dismantling old buildings for reuse, to reduce the amount of waste going to a landfill.