Getting ‘Value’ out of ‘Vacants to Values’
January 14, 2016
The Daily Record
By Joe Nathanson
Daily Record 2016 01-14 Getting-Value-out-of-Vacants-to-Values
“About a decade ago, before the collapse of the U.S. housing market and the global economic meltdown, I was given a challenging consulting assignment focused on Baltimore city’s housing market. The Baltimore Efficiency and Economy Foundation (BEEF), the independent, nonprofit policy research group focused on city government operations, wanted to understand how what was then the city’s prime initiative to deal with its stock of vacant houses was working and, more precisely, what was the economic
impact of Project SCOPE…”