BATON ROUGE – Over the last 12 years, the city of Detroit addressed nearly 47,000 land bank abandoned homes through demolition or rehabilitation through programs offered by the Detroit Land Bank Authority.
The city of Baton Rouge looks to model their blight removal process.
“We went to the place that could tell us, this is how we get this done expeditiously. This is how we get this done legally, and this is how we get this done with the least amount of pain to be able to return property to people in Baton Rouge,” East Baton Rouge Metro Council Member Jen Racca said…