Hales Smith added it made a lot of sense to release the guidebook today during the Building Michigan Communities Conference. The event is the nation’s largest conference focusing on housing, community development, preservation, and related topics, and brings together nearly 2,000 attendees in the nonprofit, public, financial, and private fields.
The Michigan Vacant Property Campaign exists to efficiently and effectively meet the needs of leaders in the state who are committed to turning the vacant properties in their communities into assets. It is a collaboration between four organizations with unique expertise related to vacant property issues: the Center for Community Progress, Community Economic Development Association of Michigan, Michigan Municipal League and Michigan Community Resources. Created to develop a statewide network of practice and expertise, the MVPC assists small, rural, suburban and metropolitan areas. The MVPC’s core activities are to provide education and outreach, community and partner technical assistance, local campaign formation and policy and systems development. (https://michiganvacantproperty.org/about/)
Center for Community Progress, headquartered in Flint, Michigan, is the only national nonprofit solely dedicated to building a future in which entrenched blight and vacancy no longer exist. Community Progress offers technical assistance, education, research, and policy development to cities and states nationwide. (https://www.communityprogress.net/)
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