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With the rising number of foreclosures, blight from vacant properties confronts communities across the country and severely threatens neighborhood stability. Cities of all shapes and sizes are searching for innovative, cost effective strategies to abate these public nuisances and transform vacant properties into catalysts for revitalization. As the new Obama Administration gets under way, what better time to join your vacant property colleagues to share successful initiatives taking place across the country and discuss the new opportunities to change the federal and state policies that affect our cities and towns.
Reclaiming Vacant Properties: Building Leadership to Restore Communities is the only national conference focusing on building the knowledge, leadership, and momentum to reclaim vacant and abandoned properties for thriving neighborhoods.
The conference is sponsored by the National Vacant Properties Campaign with principal planning partners of the Metro Louisville Government and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The NVPC is a program of Smart Growth America, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, and the Genesee Institute.
The NVPC’s mission is to help communities prevent abandonment and reclaim vacant and abandoned properties. The mission of the Community Development Office of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis includes addressing the challenges presented by vacant and abandoned properties and the threat they pose to asset accumulation among low- to moderate-income communities.
