Proactive and effective code enforcement works across city departments to identify key concerns, focus efforts, and advance cases efficiently. Partnering these efforts with health and safety receivership—placing custodial responsibility for the property with someone other than the owner—can provide a path forward for even the most challenging properties.

This session will showcase code enforcement and receivership efforts in Baltimore, Maryland; Memphis, Tennessee; California; and Massachusetts. Though each state or municipality works differently, they have found common ways to combat vacancy using cross-departmental coordination, strategic code enforcement, and receivership.

Attendees will learn the importance of cross-departmental collaboration, how to develop proactive and effective code compliance, and how to institute an effective receivership program in their community to deal with the most difficult cases.