(December 18) On December 18, 60 Minutes brought its legendary hard-hitting reporting and investigation to the scourge of America’s vacant and abandoned properties. Focusing on Cleveland, a city where 20% of its properties went vacant during the protracted slide, 60 […]
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Are block-lots the answer for shrinking cities, vacant prope…
(November 8, 2011) As “Rust Belt” cities accept their population shrinkage and advance “right-sizing” plans, one of the right-sizing tools just received significant coverage in The Atlantic. Block-lots, or blots, are created when house and landowners scoop up adjacent lots […]
continue reading“Right sizing” moving slowly in Youngstown
Youngstown, Ohio is deemed by many experts to be the pioneer of the “smart shrinkage,” or “right sizing” movement in cities with plummeting populations. Unfortunately, Youngstown’s right-sizing program seems to be crawling along. Other cities that have embraced right-sizing with […]
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