Holyoke receivership program tackles problem properties
Holyoke receivership program tackles problem properties Updated Jan 26, 2021; HOLYOKE – The City Council’s Development and Government Relations Committee heard from Acting City Solicitor Crystal Barnes on the city’s property Receivership Program. The committee held a virtual session Tuesday night. Barnes presented the committee a 14-page report on the Receivership Program, which uses the courts to assume the troubled properties that racked up or ignored violations. The council’s Public Safety Committee examined the issue in June 2020. Barnes told the committee that receivership is th...