...vacant units as well as the supply and volume of lots continue to decline in those counties. The study states that the supply for lots in the Chicago market has...

...of neighboring homes as well. Titled “Curing Community Blight: A Cost-Benefit of Clearboarding versus Plywood to Secure Vacant and Abandoned Properties,” the study found that vacant or abandoned homes worth...

...than those in the mortgage industry and in the community where the vacant properties are located, however. First responders are aware that anytime they are called to a vacant property,...

...made the switch in managing the windows of our vacant homes, it was far more apparent when homes were sitting vacant,” Gallego said. “This made them magnets for crime and...

...vacant and abandoned under section 2308.02 of the Revised Code.” Vacant and abandoned properties that contain windows boarded with plywood have often been found to attract vandalism, squatters, and in...

...to reduce the impact of vacant homes in our communities and specifically reduce the enticement risk of a vacant home that's boarded with plywood,” Meyer said. “In essence, polycarbonate makes...

...how best to shore up doors and windows on vacant properties was always the same word: plywood. Even today, when a house goes vacant, the first solution is to literally...

...Florida, Ohio, and Michigan). The new allowable announced by Fannie Mae at the NPPC finds the use of plywood unacceptable when securing vacant properties. Now all vacant properties owned by...

...vacant and foreclosed single-family homes from the market, while also helping to meet exploding demand for rentals created by the economic downturn, foreclosure crisis, and coming of age of the...

...hit hardest during the financial crisis. By January 2015, vacant homes was an exponential problem for the state. In response, Pence passed a vacant housing statute preventing municipalities from passing...