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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.”
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…
