Tag Archives: abandoned properties
Designating More Abandoned Properties In Pennsauken
By Tracey Howarth, Pennsauken Township
We wanted to bring you up to date on our abandoned property program. People often get the term “vacant” confused with the term “abandoned.” They are in fact two different things. Identifying a property as vacant is only the first step to declaring that same property abandoned. A way to think about it is to say, “A vacant property is not an abandoned property, but an abandoned property must first be vacant.”
The Importance Of Sharing Information On Abandoned And Vacant Properties
By Tracey Howarth, Pennsauken Township
Pennsauken Township has spent the better part of the last 14 months putting together a program aimed at getting the vacant and abandoned properties in town sold, rehabbed and occupied with permanent residents.
We’ve also spent countless hours studying, researching, and analyzing all the tools available to us to get our goal accomplished as quickly as possible with little to no expense to the Township. The results are a completely new set of ordinances, new partnerships, and an arsenal of tools to ensure that the Township not only has the benefit of all the current legal tools available, but also the tools to streamline this process and remove as many obstacles as possible.
The key to getting all of this done was the sharing of information: communicating between Township departments; working with our fire department and police; partnering with neighboring towns, the county, financial institutions, local contractors, lien holders, investors, and residents.
Calling All Contractors: Help Needed With Abandoned Properties
By Tracey Howarth, Pennsauken Township
Calling all contractors! Would you like to get involved in Pennsauken’s abandoned property program?
We are moving onto the next phase of our abandoned property initiative: looking for qualified contractors to help rehab and flip available properties.
Streamlining The Abandoned/Vacant Property Process, Making It Easier
By Tracey Howarth, Pennsauken Township
One of the goals for the Township’s vacant property program was to streamline and simplify the whole process from beginning to end. Well, we have just about completed that goal.
Abandoned/ Vacant Property Initiative Year In Review
By Tracey Howarth, Pennsauken Township
At the beginning of this initiative, it was agreed that the Township needed to make progress quickly, so we set a few reasonably achievable goals: get a good count of how many properties we had to deal with; map them out for a visual of where the hardest hit areas are; ensure that we had all the necessary resources in place, such as the most up-to-date ordinances to move forward; and identify and hold accountable the banks and property maintenance companies for as many of the vacant properties as we could. Once those goals were achieved, our mission was to put together a comprehensive program that would help to streamline the vacant and abandoned property processes with the ultimate goal being to sell them, rehab them, and occupy them.
So let’s see how we did…
Abandoned, Vacant… What’s The Difference?
By Tracey Howarth, Coordinator, Pennsauken’s Abandoned and Vacant Property Initiative
A bit of information can go a long way…
I recently had the pleasure of meeting with some of our town’s residents to discuss the Vacant and Abandoned Property program. It was mentioned that it would be a good idea to share the highlights of our meeting so that everyone can better understand what’s happening behind the scenes.
Partnerships Mean Progress On Abandoned And Vacant Properties
By Frank Sinatra, AAP Editor
With this year’s strong push to tackle the issue of abandoned and vacant properties throughout Pennsauken, the Township announced that in just a few months, 51 properties have already been removed from the official abandoned/vacant property list.
