{"id":1201,"date":"2019-01-07T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2019\/01\/07\/local-trend-4-years-75-reduction-in-vacant-buildings-3-steps\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:08:00","slug":"local-trend-4-years-75-reduction-in-vacant-buildings-3-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/local-trend-4-years-75-reduction-in-vacant-buildings-3-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCAL Trend. 4 years. 75% reduction in vacant buildings. 3 Steps."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In under 4 years, St. Petersburg Florida reduced the number of vacant homes by 75%.<\/p>\n<p>How did St. Petersburg achieve this?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Used courts to foreclose properties for unpaid taxes<\/li>\n<li>Targets proeprties owned by\u00a0absentee landlords<\/li>\n<li>Then the city sells the property to:\n<ul>\n<li>nonprofit affordable housing developers for $4,000 or<\/li>\n<li>sells the foreclosed properties at\u00a0auction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/urban\/gov-blight-neighborhood-st-petersburg.html?utm_term=To%20Fight%20Blight%2C%20One%20City%20Turned%20to%20Courts&amp;utm_campaign=Young%20People%20Power%20Into%20Statehouses.%20How%20Will%20They%20Impact%20Politics%20and%20Policies&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0To Fight Blight, One City Turned to Courts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In under 4 years, St. Petersburg Florida reduced the number of vacant homes by 75%.<\/p>\n<p>How did St. Petersburg achieve this?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Used courts to foreclose properties for unpaid taxes<\/li>\n<li>Targets proeprties owned by\u00a0absentee landlords<\/li>\n<li>Then the city sells the property to:\n<ul>\n<li>nonprofit affordable housing developers for $4,000 or<\/li>\n<li>sells the foreclosed properties at\u00a0auction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/urban\/gov-blight-neighborhood-st-petersburg.html?utm_term=To%20Fight%20Blight%2C%20One%20City%20Turned%20to%20Courts&amp;utm_campaign=Young%20People%20Power%20Into%20Statehouses.%20How%20Will%20They%20Impact%20Politics%20and%20Policies&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0To Fight Blight, One City Turned to Courts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5,4,37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blight","category-land-use","category-legal-trend","category-local-government-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}