The City of Buffalo holds an annual foreclosure auction to collect on delinquent taxes and fees owed by its residents. This is a way for the City to raise revenue that would otherwise go unpaid and for Buffalo citizens to buy buildings and lots at bargain prices. But the foreclosure process is imposing a high cost upon some of Buffalo’s most vulnerable citizens, creating an unnecessary burden on people trying to stay in their homes, and adding to the already existing epidemic of housing abandonment and blight
In Massachusetts, as well as in twenty-eight other states in the nation, municipalities can sell del...
The city of Buffalo recycles approximately eight percent of its curbside waste per year. This is far...
Foreclosures are at a record high, causing families to be displaced, blighted neighborhoods and the ...
The increase in tax foreclosure and property abandonment over the past five years has created an abu...
Buffalo needs an effective program to quickly fight abandonment. In the past twenty years, Buffalo’s...
Each year the City of Buffalo files thousands of dollars in housing violation fines as judgments at ...
The current fiscal crisis of the City of Buffalo arises from and exemplifies the failure of state an...
The problem of vacancy and abandonment manifests itself in many different ways. Whether it is crime,...
The City of Buffalo should amend the documents used at the annual In Rem foreclosure auction to requ...
The City asserts that it has the ability to: afford three successive property tax cuts”, thereby red...
For many years the city of Buffalo has had far more housing units than households. Buffalo has exper...
Buffalo, New York is one of many U.S. cities that experienced an extreme decline in population since...
An effective housing strategy must incorporate efficient disposition of city-owned property. A succe...
In the past decade, Cleveland, Ohio has seen the demolition of 8,000 abandoned homes, with more than...
Recently, Buffalo awoke to find that it had become the second-poorest major city in the nation, trai...
In Massachusetts, as well as in twenty-eight other states in the nation, municipalities can sell del...
The city of Buffalo recycles approximately eight percent of its curbside waste per year. This is far...
Foreclosures are at a record high, causing families to be displaced, blighted neighborhoods and the ...
The increase in tax foreclosure and property abandonment over the past five years has created an abu...
Buffalo needs an effective program to quickly fight abandonment. In the past twenty years, Buffalo’s...
Each year the City of Buffalo files thousands of dollars in housing violation fines as judgments at ...
The current fiscal crisis of the City of Buffalo arises from and exemplifies the failure of state an...
The problem of vacancy and abandonment manifests itself in many different ways. Whether it is crime,...
The City of Buffalo should amend the documents used at the annual In Rem foreclosure auction to requ...
The City asserts that it has the ability to: afford three successive property tax cuts”, thereby red...
For many years the city of Buffalo has had far more housing units than households. Buffalo has exper...
Buffalo, New York is one of many U.S. cities that experienced an extreme decline in population since...
An effective housing strategy must incorporate efficient disposition of city-owned property. A succe...
In the past decade, Cleveland, Ohio has seen the demolition of 8,000 abandoned homes, with more than...
Recently, Buffalo awoke to find that it had become the second-poorest major city in the nation, trai...
In Massachusetts, as well as in twenty-eight other states in the nation, municipalities can sell del...
The city of Buffalo recycles approximately eight percent of its curbside waste per year. This is far...
Foreclosures are at a record high, causing families to be displaced, blighted neighborhoods and the ...