Table of Contents

1 Understanding Abandonment

PART 1 Preventing Abandonment

    Introduction: Thinking Strategically
2 Property Information and early warning systems
3 Improving the economic viability of at-risk absentee-owned peoperties
4 Preventing abandonment of owner-occupied housing
5 Enforcement and intervention
6 Receivership
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PART 2 Taking Control of Abandoned Properties
   
    Introduction
7 Making tax foreclosure work
8 Other property acquisition tools
9 Property disposition
10 Setting up an abandoned property management system
11 Designing and establishing land bank entities
12 Getting action on privately owned properties
13 Maintaining, securing, and removing abandoned properties
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PART 3 Fostering Sustainable Reuse of Abandoned Properties

14 Laying the groundwork for the city's future
15 Making markets for abandoned properties
16 Using incentives to further community investment
17 Building reuse strategies around neighborhood market dynamics
18 Neighborhood revitalization planning and abandoned property strategies
19 Principles for abandoned property reuse
20 Greening the urban environment: Open space as a reuse strategy
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APPENDIX Estimationg the number of abandoned properties in American cities

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