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<br />Revise Rental Licensing and Housing Codes: Re-examine rental licensing programs and housing codes and revise or
<br />add to where needed to prevent lack of deferred maintenance and the lack of safety and security of affected housing stock.
<br />Effective ordinances include Point of Sale Code Compliance
<br />ordinances, Public Nuisance Abatement ordinances, Long Grass
<br />Ordinances, etc. 3 If your city does not license rental properties,
<br />consider licensing as a method of tracking changes in use from
<br />ownership to rental and inspecting rental building conditions.
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<br />Step Up the Use Legal Remedies: Enforce administrative code and
<br />use legal remedies. See list of helpful city ordinances to the right. Legal
<br />remedies can include, for example, tenant remedies actions and
<br />nuisance actions which can be brought by a local government, a local
<br />community group, a tenant, or other concerned parties.
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<br />Track Your City's Foreclosures and Sub-Prime Loan
<br />Concentrations: Track existing foreclosures and use external and
<br />internal data resources (such as city early warning systems4 and the
<br />Federal Reserve data on sub-prime loan concentrations5) in a
<br />coordinated city/county-wide manner to predict future distressed
<br />homeowners and manage vacancies. For example, some cities tag homes
<br />that appear vacant or have not paid their monthly water bill and leave
<br />information requesting the homeowner contact the city within several
<br />days - if no contact is made, the city turns off the water to the
<br />property6.
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<br />Track Vacant Properties: Employ a vacant and/or boarded property registry and ask community residents to report
<br />vacant properties immediately.
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<br />Recoup Vacant Property Monitoring and
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<br />Educate Landlords: Educate landlords on obligations under city ordinances and state laws regarding property
<br />maintenance, rental licensing.
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<br />Creative Board Ups: In areas where board-ups are rampant consider
<br />use innovative boarding techniques, such as artistic board-ups '
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<br />Target Public Funding and Financing Tools: Publicize financing
<br />tools that may assist new home owners to acquire and rehabilitate
<br />foreclosed properties. Examples include a The City Living Program in
<br />St Paul7 , Northside Home Fund in Minneapolis 8, City Advantage in
<br />Minneapolis9, HUD 203(k) loans10, Minnesota Housing's CASAll and
<br />Fix-up Fund, 12 and use oflocal HRA levy dollars in key areas.
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<br />Develop New Strategic Partnerships: Build partnerships with for-
<br />profit and non-profit redevelopers, lenders, realtors and other
<br />community based organizations that focus on the recovery of specific
<br />targeted geographic areas of your community.13
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<br />Explore Bulk Purchasing Strategies with Local Developers and
<br />Lenders: Partner with local non-profit and for-profit developers to
<br />negotiate bulk purchase of properties from lenders to pro actively
<br />revitalize affected neighborhoods and prevent foreclosed homes from
<br />falling into the hands of unscrupulous speculators.
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<br />Coo~diflateEarly.. Warning Data on
<br />.Fore~losure~af1,d Sub-PrimeL~ans
<br />to Target Outreach.and~emediatiof1,
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<br />.. Track Utility Billing (Late Payers) AndUsage
<br />To LD.VacantHoIl1es andPfevent Water
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<br />Track City. Inspection And EnforcementReports
<br />Monitor Federal Reserve Data On Sub Prime
<br />~oan Concentrations By Local Zip Code
<br />'. Monitqr. .County _ ~heriff Data -To :Track Street
<br />Address Level Foreclosure Locations
<br />. Monitor State Foreclosure Reports At GMHF
<br />And Housing Link Web Sites
<br />Values ThroughCounty Assessor Data
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