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Foster Township Residents Hear More About Blight
Jun 6 2018

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Share List Foster Township officials continued the conversation about reducing blight during a short supervisors meeting Monday evening. Supervisor Chairman George Hocker took a few minutes to clarify for residents the new blight ordinance. He said that when a violation …more
Scranton Residents Provide Feedback at the First of Four “Blight to Bright” Meetings
Jun 4 2018

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Share List Those convened at Goodwill at North — the site of the first of four meetings to be held as part of a burgeoning Blight to Bright program administered by the Lackawanna County Land Bank — pinballed between different …more
Habitat for Humanity Breaks Ground on New Home in Centre County
Jun 4 2018

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Share List In a matter of months, on what is now a just grassy plot of land on Reynolds Avenue in Bellefonte will be a new home for a local family, thanks to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County …more
‘Building Capacity’ in Struggling Erie Neighborhoods
May 22 2018

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Share List Mayor Joe Schember’s administration wants to help struggling areas of the city that have traditionally lacked strong neighborhood organizations or where such groups need additional resources. ServErie’s ongoing efforts on the city’s east side are an example, and …more
Cities Now Use Taxes to Fight Blight. Is It Working?
May 15 2018

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Share List It’s a scenario that plays out over and over in cities across the country: A small business in a hip neighborhood closes, the storefront is left empty for months — maybe years — and then eventually gets replaced …more
Worried Your Bethlehem Neighborhood’s Going Downhill? City Has a Plan for That
May 15 2018

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Share List Bethlehem Mayor Bob Donchez believes that healthy neighborhoods are the backbone of a strong Bethlehem. His administration has taken a more aggressive approach to blighting properties in hopes of spurring action on them and he’s targeted individual neighborhoods he …more
McKeesport Council OKs First Phase of Vacant Home Demolition
May 15 2018

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Share List McKeesport council has approved the first phase of a citywide demolition project that will tear down 97 vacant dilapidated houses. The McKeesport Rising initiative is a $2.5 million line item in the 2018 budget set aside for capital …more
Fighting Blight: Tri-COG Land Bank Buys Properties & Plans to Return Them to Productive Use
May 8 2018

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Share List In a half-empty room in the Allegheny County Courthouse at the conclusion of a monthly sheriff’s sale Monday, the Tri-COG Land Bank purchased two properties. The moment might have seemed anticlimactic, but the parcels were the first purchased …more
Troubling Discovery: Survey Shows More Than Half of Altoona’s Low-to-Moderate Income Areas Need Repair
May 8 2018

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Share List A survey undertaken by the city planning office last summer involving examination of all 9,300 parcels in the low-to-moderate income areas of the city, showed that 20 buildings need to be demolished, 372 need to be rehabilitated and …more
Lackawanna County Land Bank Sells its 50th Property
May 8 2018

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Share List On Friday, the Lackawanna County Land Bank sold its 50th property in Scranton. The building in the 1100-block of Capouse Avenue is sandwiched between a number of businesses. It has been boarded up for quite a while but thanks …more

Homes Within Reach 2018: Save the Date!

Homes Within Reach 2018: Save the Date!

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