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Papers by Kermit Lind

Probate & Property, 2015

This article describes various perspectives on abandoned houses in urban neighborhoods and the re... more This article describes various perspectives on abandoned houses in urban neighborhoods and the reactions from those perspectives.. It notes how conflicting reactions perpetuate the crisis of blight for individual residents and their communities. It argues that real solutions for management of abandonment must be based in local communities and tailored to local conditions. Priority must be placed on consistent maintenance in compliance with local housing and neighborhood health, safety and environmental codes. Housing preservation, rehabilitation, reutilization programs will not succeed without improved and sustained maintenance. Localities will need to take the lead in remodeling residential maintenance using new strategies, methods and technologies. Role models for that work are emerging.

How Cities Will Save the World, Jun 3, 2016

Housing & Community Development Law eJournal, 2015

This article describes various perspectives on abandoned houses in urban neighborhoods and the re... more This article describes various perspectives on abandoned houses in urban neighborhoods and the reactions from those perspectives. It notes how conflicting reactions perpetuate the crisis of blight for individual residents and their communities. It argues that real solutions for management of abandonment must be based in local communities and tailored to local conditions. Priority must be placed on consistent maintenance in compliance with local housing and neighborhood health, safety and environmental codes. Housing preservation, rehabilitation, reutilization programs will not succeed without improved and sustained maintenance. Localities will need to take the lead in remodeling residential maintenance using new strategies, methods and technologies. Role models for that work are emerging.

AARN: Urban Studies (Topic), 2016

I. WHAT IS THE LEGAL AND POLICY CONTEXT OF NEIGHBORHOOD BLIGHT? 806A The Legal Roots of Blight in... more I. WHAT IS THE LEGAL AND POLICY CONTEXT OF NEIGHBORHOOD BLIGHT? 806A The Legal Roots of Blight in Public Nuisance Doctrine 807B. Definition and History of Blight 810C. A Culture that Perpetuates Blight, Property Abandonment, and Neighborhood Decline 812D. Blighted Houses and the Mortgage Crisis 815II. LEGAL AND POLICY CHALLENGES IN ADDRESSING NEIGHBORHOOD BLIGHT-THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL AND LOCAL NETWORKS 818A. Code Enforcement's Evolution and Prominence 819B. Formation of the National Vacant Properties Campaign 822C. Expanding the Network in Response to National Crisis of Vacant Properties 827D. Developing a Systematic, Data-Driven Policy Framework for Strategic Code Enforcement 833III. REFLECTIONS ON HOW FAR WE HAVE COME AND HOW FAR WE NEED TO GO 839A. Clarifying the Legal Principles of Blight and Nuisance in State and Local Laws and Policies 841B. Developing New Systems and Capacities for Strategic Code Enforcement 844C. Developing Local Teams or Councils for Supporting Cros...

Urban Economics & Regional Studies eJournal, 1982

Communities becoming racially integrated are usually confronted with the challenge of maintaining... more Communities becoming racially integrated are usually confronted with the challenge of maintaining integration when the prevailing precedent would suggest that integration is a transition from all white to all black. Suburban integration following the passage of the Federal Fair Housing Law in 1968 presented an unprecedented challenge to those communities. Residential integration was not the desire of the majority of homeowners then and racial discrimination was deeply imbedded in the business of selling and buying homes. Some communities made a determination to embrace and maintain residential integration. Those municipal governments were pressed by many of their constituents and the federal policies tied to federal funds to affirmatively further fair housing. To many, that meant furthering stable integration. This articles delves into how integration and its maintenance was sought in public law and municipal practices.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016

As more American cities launch citywide blight elimination campaigns, reform outdated policies, a... more As more American cities launch citywide blight elimination campaigns, reform outdated policies, and rebuild dysfunctional nuisance abatement programs, they are literally counting on data. Working together, local governments and community-based organizations are sending residents and staff out into neighborhoods with mobile devices to conduct comprehensive inventories of property conditions and neighborhood characteristics. With leadership from nonprofits, local foundations, and universities, a few pioneering cities-such as Cleveland and Detroit-have established robust real property information systems, essentially clearinghouses that merge real property condition data with local data on title, ownership interests and transfers, mortgage and tax foreclosures, code enforcement cases, water utility shutoffs, and undeliverable postal addresses. Taken together, these data serve as primary indicators for existing or future property vacancy or abandonment. Although more communities know more today about the existing number, location, and condition of vacant properties within their jurisdictions, many local governments still have significant capacity and technology gaps, especially within code enforcement agencies that uphold state laws and local ordinances related to property maintenance, unsafe structures, demolitions, and substandard housing. This brief examines the latest strategies, tools, and techniques for using real property data to help communities facilitate neighborhood revitalization through a strategic, data-driven approach to code enforcement policies, programs, and tactics. The Vacant Property Research Network's research and policy brief series bridges the traditional divide between research and practice by explaining the methods behind recent research along with the context and findings so that practitioners and community leaders can better understand what the research says, what the research does not say, and how it might be relevant to their respective vacant property initiatives. By understanding how current research may or may not apply to local efforts, we believe practitioners and policymakers will be better equipped to make better decisions, improve policy and program implementation, and ultimately facilitate the regeneration of their communities. This effort was made possible with the support of the Ford Foundation.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012

Journal of Affordable Housing, 2011

Case Western Reserve law review, 2020

Journal of Affordable Housing Community Development Law, 2008

Probate & Property, 2015

This article describes various perspectives on abandoned houses in urban neighborhoods and the re... more This article describes various perspectives on abandoned houses in urban neighborhoods and the reactions from those perspectives.. It notes how conflicting reactions perpetuate the crisis of blight for individual residents and their communities. It argues that real solutions for management of abandonment must be based in local communities and tailored to local conditions. Priority must be placed on consistent maintenance in compliance with local housing and neighborhood health, safety and environmental codes. Housing preservation, rehabilitation, reutilization programs will not succeed without improved and sustained maintenance. Localities will need to take the lead in remodeling residential maintenance using new strategies, methods and technologies. Role models for that work are emerging.

How Cities Will Save the World, Jun 3, 2016

Housing & Community Development Law eJournal, 2015

This article describes various perspectives on abandoned houses in urban neighborhoods and the re... more This article describes various perspectives on abandoned houses in urban neighborhoods and the reactions from those perspectives. It notes how conflicting reactions perpetuate the crisis of blight for individual residents and their communities. It argues that real solutions for management of abandonment must be based in local communities and tailored to local conditions. Priority must be placed on consistent maintenance in compliance with local housing and neighborhood health, safety and environmental codes. Housing preservation, rehabilitation, reutilization programs will not succeed without improved and sustained maintenance. Localities will need to take the lead in remodeling residential maintenance using new strategies, methods and technologies. Role models for that work are emerging.

AARN: Urban Studies (Topic), 2016

I. WHAT IS THE LEGAL AND POLICY CONTEXT OF NEIGHBORHOOD BLIGHT? 806A The Legal Roots of Blight in... more I. WHAT IS THE LEGAL AND POLICY CONTEXT OF NEIGHBORHOOD BLIGHT? 806A The Legal Roots of Blight in Public Nuisance Doctrine 807B. Definition and History of Blight 810C. A Culture that Perpetuates Blight, Property Abandonment, and Neighborhood Decline 812D. Blighted Houses and the Mortgage Crisis 815II. LEGAL AND POLICY CHALLENGES IN ADDRESSING NEIGHBORHOOD BLIGHT-THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL AND LOCAL NETWORKS 818A. Code Enforcement's Evolution and Prominence 819B. Formation of the National Vacant Properties Campaign 822C. Expanding the Network in Response to National Crisis of Vacant Properties 827D. Developing a Systematic, Data-Driven Policy Framework for Strategic Code Enforcement 833III. REFLECTIONS ON HOW FAR WE HAVE COME AND HOW FAR WE NEED TO GO 839A. Clarifying the Legal Principles of Blight and Nuisance in State and Local Laws and Policies 841B. Developing New Systems and Capacities for Strategic Code Enforcement 844C. Developing Local Teams or Councils for Supporting Cros...

Urban Economics & Regional Studies eJournal, 1982

Communities becoming racially integrated are usually confronted with the challenge of maintaining... more Communities becoming racially integrated are usually confronted with the challenge of maintaining integration when the prevailing precedent would suggest that integration is a transition from all white to all black. Suburban integration following the passage of the Federal Fair Housing Law in 1968 presented an unprecedented challenge to those communities. Residential integration was not the desire of the majority of homeowners then and racial discrimination was deeply imbedded in the business of selling and buying homes. Some communities made a determination to embrace and maintain residential integration. Those municipal governments were pressed by many of their constituents and the federal policies tied to federal funds to affirmatively further fair housing. To many, that meant furthering stable integration. This articles delves into how integration and its maintenance was sought in public law and municipal practices.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016

As more American cities launch citywide blight elimination campaigns, reform outdated policies, a... more As more American cities launch citywide blight elimination campaigns, reform outdated policies, and rebuild dysfunctional nuisance abatement programs, they are literally counting on data. Working together, local governments and community-based organizations are sending residents and staff out into neighborhoods with mobile devices to conduct comprehensive inventories of property conditions and neighborhood characteristics. With leadership from nonprofits, local foundations, and universities, a few pioneering cities-such as Cleveland and Detroit-have established robust real property information systems, essentially clearinghouses that merge real property condition data with local data on title, ownership interests and transfers, mortgage and tax foreclosures, code enforcement cases, water utility shutoffs, and undeliverable postal addresses. Taken together, these data serve as primary indicators for existing or future property vacancy or abandonment. Although more communities know more today about the existing number, location, and condition of vacant properties within their jurisdictions, many local governments still have significant capacity and technology gaps, especially within code enforcement agencies that uphold state laws and local ordinances related to property maintenance, unsafe structures, demolitions, and substandard housing. This brief examines the latest strategies, tools, and techniques for using real property data to help communities facilitate neighborhood revitalization through a strategic, data-driven approach to code enforcement policies, programs, and tactics. The Vacant Property Research Network's research and policy brief series bridges the traditional divide between research and practice by explaining the methods behind recent research along with the context and findings so that practitioners and community leaders can better understand what the research says, what the research does not say, and how it might be relevant to their respective vacant property initiatives. By understanding how current research may or may not apply to local efforts, we believe practitioners and policymakers will be better equipped to make better decisions, improve policy and program implementation, and ultimately facilitate the regeneration of their communities. This effort was made possible with the support of the Ford Foundation.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012

Journal of Affordable Housing, 2011

Case Western Reserve law review, 2020

Journal of Affordable Housing Community Development Law, 2008