blighted and abandoned properties News

New York’s attorney general says he’s submitting legislation to combat the plague of abandoned properties, revising a bill lawmakers failed to enact last year. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman would make banks and other mortgage lenders responsible for maintaining properties abandoned …

With thousands of properties caught in a three-year legal holding pattern, Baton Rouge, La., and other officials across the state want the New Orleans treatment on dealing with blight. New Orleans already secured a state constitutional amendment speeding up the …