{"id":394,"date":"2007-11-29T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realst8.crankpin.com\/south-bend\/south-bend-addresses-vacant-homes\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T19:00:46","slug":"south-bend-addresses-vacant-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/south-bend\/south-bend-addresses-vacant-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bend Addresses Vacant Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/vacancy_map_SJC.pdf\" title=\"vacancy map of St. Joseph County, Indiana\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/images\/vacancy_map_SJC_thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Vacancy map of St. Joseph County, Indiana\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendin.gov\/city\/common_council\/index.asp\">South Bend Common Council<\/a> passed an ordinance designed to lessen the negative impact of vacant and abandoned homes in the city. It requires the property owners to register habitually vacant or abandoned properties with the city, pay an annual fee, maintain liability insurance, and designate a property manager in the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbt.com\/news\/local\/11826986.html\">WSBT<\/a>, &#8220;The city&#8217;s code enforcement department says there are more than 600 vacant homes across the city.&#8221; The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/factfinder.census.gov\/servlet\/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=&amp;ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&amp;pctxt=fph&amp;_lang=en&amp;_sse=on&amp;geo_id=16000US1871000&amp;_state=04000US18\">census bureau<\/a>, however puts that figure at 7,981 homes. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendin.gov\/doc\/CED_HCDPlan.pdf\">South Bend&#8217;s Housing and Community Development Plan<\/a> includes a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/vacancy_map_SJC.pdf\">map<\/a> of the county coded by vacancy rate.<\/p>\n<p>If signed by Mayor Leucke, the vacant property rules will be effective January 1st.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance is available <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/SB_vacant_home_ordinance.pdf\">here<\/a>, South Bend Tribune&#8217;s article <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/southbendtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071128\/News01\/71128033\/1052\/News01\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Bend Common Council passed an ordinance designed to lessen the negative impact of vacant and abandoned homes in the city. It requires the property owners to register habitually vacant or abandoned properties with the city, pay an annual fee, maintain liability insurance, and designate a property manager in the area. According to WSBT, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-bend"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}