The Blight Authority will tackle problem properties that have given the city a bad image. The city council voted unanimously to create the authority, which will bring together public and private ...

If you live next door to one, forget about homeowner's insurance. In clearing the brush from the 14 blocks in Brightmoor, the Detroit Blight Authority found 300 tires, tons of garbage and a dead body.

DETROIT, MI -- The Detroit Blight Authority is targeting a 14-block area in the Brightmoor neighborhood in its second major demolition blitz since forming earlier this year.

Tammy Daniels, CEO of the Detroit Land Bank Authority, says the city’s next mayor has a prime resource ready to get more land back into the hands of Detroiters while digging deeper in their mission: ...

Without an active VPRB, the authority can’t use eminent domain to eliminate “spot blight,” meaning the authority would need to rely instead on negotiating with owners to sell or give the ...

Bill Pulte, founder and chairman of the blight authority, along with Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and Pontiac Mayor Deirdre Waterman, announced that of the city's roughly 900 ...

WOODLAND PARK • In a discussion about property rights in regard to urban blight, the Downtown Development Authority dove into the issue of maintaining the downtown corridor as a place of attraction.

St. Louis Blight Authority workers Christian Schultz, left, and Antonio Jackson take a selfie with St. Louis native and Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey, right, after a press conference ...

Warner Robins officials are taking new steps to address persistent blight, voting to shift the code enforcement division under the authority of the police department in hopes of strengthening ...

The home just north of Huron Street was the first to fall after the expansion of Bill Pulte’s nonprofit Detroit Blight Authority to Pontiac, a public-private partnership with the county and city ...