Campaign Reports & Presentations

Vacant Properties: The True Costs to Communities – Spring 2005 (1.6mb PDF) This report summarizes research on the costs vacant and abandoned properties impose upon communities. It also highlights local programs successfully recapturing the value in these properties.

Cleveland at the Crossroads: Turning Abandonment into Opportunity – June 2005 (1.5mb PDF) This report offers recommendations based on assessments of existing programs and policies from Cleveland, Ohio.

Reinventing Dayton and the Miami Valley through Vacant Property Revitalization and Reclamation (1.6mb PDF) This report offers recommendations based on assessments of existing programs and policies from Dayton and its older suburbs.

Campaign Forum Presentations

Ohio Vacant Properties Forum – Columbus, OH, October 24-25, 2005

• The Vacant Property Challenge in Ohio: The Cycle of Abandonment
• Doug Harsany, Ohio Department of Development (100kb PPT)
• Joe Schilling, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech (20.2mb PPT)
• The Ohio Story: Legal, Demographic, and Market Trends
• Jason Reece, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University (1.7mb PPT)
• Gene Krebs, Greater Ohio (3.3mb PPT)
• Myron Orfield – Ohio Metropatterns: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability in Ohio (9.5mb PPT)
• Tapping Into Available Resources
• Royce Yeater, National Trust for Historic Preservation (160kb PPT)
• Jennifer Leonard, National Vacant Properties Campaign (5.4mb PPT)
• Carlton Eley, U.S. EPA (1.2mb PPT)
• National Models Part I: Remedies and Opportunities
• Dan Kildee, Genesee County Treasurer (988kb PPT)
• Anika Goss-Foster (2mb PPT)

Additional presentations from the Ohio forum will be posted as we receive them.

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Land Bank Authority Forum – Flint MI, April 7-8, 2005

• The Broader Context of Vacant Land (10mb PPT)
  Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution
• Land Bank Authorities: Overview of Structures and Needs (187kb PPT)
  Frank S. Alexander, Emory University School of Law
• Land Bank Authorities: The Experience of Key Cities
  Melissa Barry, Louisville/Jefferson County LBA (223kb PPT)
  Linda Hudecek, Neighborhood Progress Inc., Cleveland (31mb PPT)
  Daniel T. Kildee, Genesee County Treasurer (2mb PPT)
• Luncheon Keynote(128kb PPT)
  Mayor William Johnson, Rochester, New York
• Putting It All Together (380kb PPT)
  john a. powell, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University
• The Genesee Land Bank: History, Policies, Procedures, and Financing (2mb PPT)
  Daniel T. Kildee, Genesee County Treasurer
• Creating a Land Bank in Michigan (45k PPT)
  Peter Goodstein, Counsel, Genesee County Treasurer & Land Bank; Amy Hovey, Protogenia Group; Lisa Mueller Levy, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
• Michigan’s Land, Michigan’s Future (8.1mb PPT)
  Julie Metty Bennett, Public Sector Consultants, Inc.
• Now That You Got Them, What Do You Do with Them? Planning, Management and Disposition (14mb PPT)
  Daniel T. Kildee, Genesee County Treasurer; Bob Beckley, Genesee County Land Bank and University of MI; Christina Kelly, Genesee County Land Bank; Jeff Burdick, Genesee County Land Bank; Art Potter, Genesee County Land Bank
• Michigan Land Bank Technical Assistance Program (1.3mb PPT)
  Daniel T. Kildee, Genesee County Treasurer; Lisa Mueller Levy, Local Initiatives Support Corporation; Dave Frey, Land Information Access Association

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National Vacant Properties Campaign Research and Policy Forum – Washington, DC, July 29, 2004

• The Vacant Properties Cycle
  John Kromer, Fellow, Fels Institute of Government
• Information Systems
  Dennis Culhane, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
• Sustainable Reuse and Revitalization
  Alan Mallach, Research Director, National Housing Institute
• Managing Vacant and Abandoned Properties
  Diane Silva-Martinez, Head Deputy City Attorney, City of San Diego
• Bringing it All Together
  Sheena Wright, President and CEO, Abyssinian Development Corporation

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National Vacant Properties Campaign Kickoff Forum – Washington, DC, July 9, 2003

• Mayor William Johnson, City of Rochester, New York (29mb)
• Frank Alexander, Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law (208kb)
• Connie Bawcum, B & W Partners (16.1mb)
• Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director of the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Brookings Institution

Other Presentations

Community-Based Code Enforcement and Neighborhood Revitalization session at the American Planning Association conference– San Antonio, Texas, April 23, 2006

• Joseph M. Schilling, Virginia Tech Metropolitan Inst, Alexandria, VA (2.6mb PDF)
• William P. Schreck, Louisville Jefferson County Dept IPL, Louisville, KY (15.5mb PPS)

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At the CDPN 2005 Annual Learning conference – Baltimore, Maryland, June 20, 2005

• Vacant Building Receivership: In Rem Code Enforcement for Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods (944kb PPT)
  James Kelly, University of Baltimore Law School

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Tackling Vacant Land and Abandoned Properties session at the American Planning Association conference – Denver, Colorado, April 1, 2003

• Jeremy Nowak, President, The Reinvestment Fund (5.9mb)
• Steve Green, Special Assistant, Washington, D.C.'s Deputy Mayor's Office for Economic Development (41.4mb)
• Toby Millman, Vice President of Project Development, Eakin/Youngentob Associates (59.6mb)
• Don Chen, Executive Director, Smart Growth America (320mb)
• John Kromer, Fellow, Fels Institute of Government (2.1mb)
• Lisa Mueller, Coordinator of Knowledge Sharing, LISC (512mb)
• Ken Snyder, Executive Director, PlaceMatters.com (31.1mb)