How should a small city address soft market conditions and problem properties?

SUMMARY

The City of Dunkirk chose czb to help the community understand the scale of its "zombie property" problem and to provide the data and tools necessary to prioritize resources and address the underlying forces that result in concentrations of vacant and distressed properties. Working with a committee of community volunteers who assessed the condition of every residential property in the city, czb pulled together diverse datasets to identify three distinct types of problem properties and tailored intervention strategies for each.

czb works with Dunkirk citizen volunteers to assess 4,400 city properties