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 Sustainable Pittsburgh/SWPA Blighted and Abandoned Properties Solutions Project Report Launched at the behest of Sustainable Pittsburgh's Sustainable community development Network, this SWPA Blighted and Abandoned Properties Solutions Project presents analysis and recommendations for raising capacity to address blight and abandonment at scale for southwestern Pennsylvania. The report substantiates that addressing blight and abandonment offers the chance to build assets in a community and deliver economic, environmental, and social equity benefits for both community and the region as a whole. However, at present, there exists no regional plan, decision-making table, nor coordinated regional effort to tackle the growing crisis of blight and abandonment in our communities.Southwestern Pennsylvania needs to begin now to develop a collaborative regional strategy and actions to prevent and address blight and abandonment. Sustainable Pittsburgh views this project as a phase I in the process of moving from recommendations to execution toward filling the void and exercising a collaborative regional strategy for addressing blight and abandonment where prevention and mitigation is key to the region's sustainability. The report lays out rationale and recommendations for building new approaches and regional capacity by creating a SWPA Blight and Abandonment Regional Round table; deploying an educational/training program; developing demonstration projects to be administered by a proposed shared technical Service Entity, and developing approaches to inventory blighted and abandoned properties.Also, acknowledging the important role of the state, many recommendations are detailed on aligning state resources and leadership. Please Click the below link for the Executive Summary Sustainable Pittsburgh SWPA Blight & Abandoned Properties Project Report |
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