Massachusetts’ Efforts to Address Foreclosed Properties
March 18, 2009
Massachusetts has been ahead of the curve in combating neighborhood deterioration as real-estate-owned (lender-owned) foreclosed properties increase. Affordable housing developers, community groups, municipal and state officials, and nonprofits have created a Foreclosed Property Task Force and an online database that is accessible by all the partners. The database is already improving decision making about where resources would have the most impact.
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Prabal Chakrabarti,
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Email: Prabal.Chakrabarti@bos.frb.org
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