We need to come together as neighbors and remedy this blight, because the decay can’t be missed and should no longer be ignored.
If you drive through many of the neighborhoods west of Ninth Street, you can’t help but notice the huge number of decaying, vacant, and abandoned properties.
We need to come together as neighbors and remedy this blight, because the decay can’t be missed and should no longer be ignored. This issue was on the mind of Courier-Journal’s Joe Gerth when he addressed the problem in a recent column, “Scourge of vacant homes killing West Louisville.”
This is one of Louisville’s greatest challenges, and I believe one of the great opportunities. We have been working in the Portland neighborhood for the last four years, and one of the four pillars of our Portland Investment Initiative (Pii) addresses exactly this issue of “vacant, abandoned properties” (VAPs). [more]
Source: A vision for Louisville’s vacant properties | Gill Holland
