A Collection of inspiring pictures of formerly abandoned factories renovated into modern housing.

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Blub: The latest edition of The Bright Side features guest host Dan Kildee of Community Progress, with segments on housing and green projects, deconstruction, commercial development and the basics of land banking.

Useful Community Development goes over the various ways you can try to address abandoned properties in your neighborhood in order to keep them from negatively impacting your home town.

This article overviews the land banks in major cities that facilitate the process of turning abandoned properties into productive properties faster. This includes city-owned lands and foreclosed houses in the hands of banks. It talks about using big data science together with land banks to make the process transparent and efficient.

It may not look like much on the outside, but over the next few years a former food factory in Chicago is going to be turned into a lean, mean, food growing machine.

This is a comprehensive analysis of the effects abandoned buildings has on the neighborhood and the ways to solve the problem.

About a year ago, an investigation by The Chicago Reporter examined the scourge of vacant buildings in the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis and Chicago’s efforts to hold financial institutions responsible for maintaining the properties.

The presence of [abandoned buildings] leads to poorer health and feelings of hopelessness among residents, increased mortality among drug users and the spread of sexually transmitted disease, studies have shown.

Fixing up abandoned buildings in the inner city doesn’t just eliminate eyesores, it can also significantly reduce crime and violence, including gun assaults, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine report in the first study to demonstrate the direct impact of building remediation efforts on crime.

City leaders hope a ten million dollar bond issue will help clean up the community of hundreds of dangerous and vacant buildings.

Foreclosure and board-ups are a part of life today on the street that Ms. Washington, 73, says was “just beautiful” when her family moved there from the Cabrini-Green housing project on the North Side.

The article explains that the city has a large demolition backlog. It also notes that 30 percent of vacant buildings are homes owned by deceased elderly people with no mortgage and no family member who want the property

The housing crisis lives on in the homes it has emptied—and banks aren't taking responsibility

The Dec. 1999 Worcester fire started in a vacant structure, the Cold Storage Warehouse. But how many such potential fire hazards are waiting to happen?