{"id":946,"date":"2017-12-06T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/12\/06\/2-lessons-from-a-mayor-fighting-blight-with-liens-and-sales\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T22:28:00","slug":"2-lessons-from-a-mayor-fighting-blight-with-liens-and-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2-lessons-from-a-mayor-fighting-blight-with-liens-and-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Lessons from a Mayor Fighting Blight with Liens and Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilmington, DE Mayor Mike Purzcki proposed to eliminate blight by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>imposing liens\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>forcing sheriff sales of blighted property<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The opposition killed it by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>raising concerns that a person&#8217;s home will be taken<\/li>\n<li>raising concerns that property would be taken for a minor violation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What solution did opponents want?\u00a0<\/strong>Protections in ordinance that limit the ability to take owner occuppied homes and to prohibit takings for minor violations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/12\/05\/wilmington-mayors-anti-blight-effort-hits-roadblock\/918761001\/\">Wilmington News Journal |\u00a0Wilmington mayor&#8217;s anti-blight effort hits roadblock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilmington, DE Mayor Mike Purzcki proposed to eliminate blight by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>imposing liens\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>forcing sheriff sales of blighted property<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The opposition killed it by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>raising concerns that a person&#8217;s home will be taken<\/li>\n<li>raising concerns that property would be taken for a minor violation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What solution did opponents want?\u00a0<\/strong>Protections in ordinance that limit the ability to take owner occuppied homes and to prohibit takings for minor violations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/12\/05\/wilmington-mayors-anti-blight-effort-hits-roadblock\/918761001\/\">Wilmington News Journal |\u00a0Wilmington mayor&#8217;s\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30,10,37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blight","category-co-development","category-economic-development","category-local-government-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}