The Empty House Next Door: Understanding and Reducing Vacancy and Hypervacancy in the United States - Paperback

by Alan Mallach (Author)

Renowned city planner and housing advocate Alan Mallach presents effective strategies for community leaders, local officials, and nonprofits contending with vacant properties in the United States. Examples illustrate creative ways to reduce the harm caused by vacant properties, jump-start housing markets in struggling neighborhoods, create the potential for future revival, and transform vacant properties into community assets.

Author Biography

Alan Mallach is a senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress and a visiting professor at the Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. He is the author of The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America, co-author of the 2013 Policy Focus Report, Regenerating America's Legacy Cities, and editor of the 2012 book Rebuilding America's Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland.