Experts Online Archive: Session 2 of Sustainable communities: Taking vacant properties solutions to scale

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Date Published: 04/13/2010

Archived webcast from 04/07/10, Session 2: Tools in the Vacant Properties Success Kit: Getting Down to Brass Tacks

Description

Remediation and reuse of vacant properties remains a core strategy in redeveloping communities that are economically vibrant and offer a competitive quality of life. Join this two-part training session to learn more about how to take vacant property reclamation to scale. The series provides an opportunity to explore both comprehensive remediation strategies and critical issues that is important to local environments. National experts will provide an opportunity for interactive problem solving with the participants.

Session 2: Tools in the Vacant Properties Success Kit: Getting Down to Brass Tacks

Session topics included how to:

  1. Understand negative effects of current systems and assess recent reform efforts
  2. Identify state and local vacant properties policy impediments
  3. Advocate for effective strategies that build vacant properties tools
  4. Target strategies that include vacant properties as part of sustainable revitalization

Presenters

  • Prof. Frank Alexander, Emory Law School
  • Prof. Joe Schilling, The Metropolitain Institute at Virginia Tech.
  • Julie Seward (Moderator), Director of State Policy, LISC

Archive Recording:

This session was conducted using ReadyTalk.
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Downloads:

> Presentation Packet (PDF, 795 KB)

Topic: --Vacant Properties

Type: Archived Webcast - Experts Online