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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