Bringing Buildings Back: From Abandoned Properties to Community Assets: A Guidebook for Policymakers and Practitioners Book

1	Understanding abandonment	1
Pt. 1	Preventing abandonment	11
	Introduction : thinking strategically	13
2	Property information and early warning systems	17
3	Improving the economic viability of at-risk absentee-owned properties	24
4	Preventing abandonment of owner-occupied housing	31
5	Enforcement and intervention	40
6	Receivership	49
Pt. 2	Taking control of abandoned properties	69
7	Making tax foreclosure work	75
8	Other property acquisition tools	86
9	Property disposition	103
10	Setting up an abandoned property management system	117
11	Designing and establishing land bank entities	128
12	Getting action on privately owned properties	143
13	Maintaining, securing, and removing abandoned properties	166
Pt. 3	Fostering sustainable reuse of abandoned properties	187
14	Laying the groundwork for the city's future	191
15	Making markets for abandoned properties	197
16	Using incentives to further community investment	217
17	Building reuse strategies around neighborhood market dynamics	233
18	Neighborhood revitalization planning and abandoned property strategies	245
19	Principles for abandoned property reuse	266
20	Greening the urban environment : open space as a reuse strategy	283
App	Estimating the number of abandoned properties in American cities	307