The issue of municipal blight designations has taken center stage within the last few years. Cases like Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), and City of Long Branch v. Brower, 2006 WL ...

A Columbia City Council decision that designates part of the city as falling under the state's definition of a "blighted" area has mobilized residents, and some are forming a not-for-profit ...

Minneapolis and St. Paul will have another tool to jumpstart office-to-residential conversion projects if a bill under consideration in the Legislature becomes law. Tuesday morning, the House Taxes ...

COLUMBIA - A group concerned about blight in Columbia held its first meeting Thursday. The group, known as Citizens Invested in Columbia, met to oppose a definition of blight applied to many parts of ...

Altoona should not ignore any potential resource in the fight against blight. That's why the city should revive the Vacant Property Review Board, which has been dormant since about 2008. Evidence in ...

CHEYENNE – Mayor Marian Orr’s all-volunteer “Fight the Blight” advisory task force began to discuss the work ahead of it Tuesday, including working out a definition of the blight it’s aiming to ...

Do any of these words strike a chord: "ruin, decay, plague, wither, eyesore, scourge, disaster, pollution, rot, ruination"? They all refer to "blight." How do any of these words apply to the property ...