Course Number: 4nov- DEMO

Effective Partnerships:

From Demolition to Development

Speaker: Alison D. Goebel, PhD

About Greater Ohio Policy Center

A outcome-oriented statewide

non-profit that champions

revitalization and sustainable

redevelopment in Ohio:

• Revitalize Ohio’s urban

cores and metropolitan

regions

• Achieve sustainable land

reuse and economic

growth

Alison D. Goebel,

Associate Director

Greater Ohio Policy

Center

@alisongoebeloh

agoebel@greaterohio.org

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Course Description

This session will discuss a broad range of vacant property issues

including how demolition funding is used by landbanks to assist

cities/towns to strategically target blight, and assist developers in

effective redevelopment and long-term community stabilization. Who

are the players and partners, (perhaps some you haven’t thought of)

that can help? What are the road blocks facing efforts to combat

vacancy and blight? How can we develop partnerships to make the

most impact from limited funding resources across the board- from

demolition to development?

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to list innovative techniques in urban planning

such as: identifying scarce funding resources, strategic partnerships, data-

driven site selection, and collaborative neighborhood outreach & planning

exercises.

• Participants will be able to discuss how strategic site selection/compact

development (i.e. near transportation and amenities), housing

rehabilitation and various vacant land reuses can improve sustainability

efforts for cities/towns.

• Participants will be able to discuss current trends in land use analysis and

how it is driving demolition and housing policy & funding decisions.

• Participants will be able to discuss current trends in data-driven planning

efforts focused on strategic site selection for demolition and

redevelopment.

Effective Partnerships: From

Demolition to Development

Perspectives on Development Strategies from around Ohio

Policies and Practices

Attractive, safe and accessible communities—

small and large—will attract and retain the workers

we need to make Ohio an economically

competitive state

L to R: Columbus

Commons, Fort Piqua

Historic Hotel

Why Ohio needs demolition

~90,000 blighted residential properties

High rates of blighted commercial and

industrial properties.

Why Ohio needs demolition: stagnant

state population growth; decreasing

urban population

Why Ohio needs demolition:

decreasing populations in mid- and

small-sized cities

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-8%

-6%

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Ironton

Percent Change in Population from 2000 to 2010

Why Ohio needs demolition: in 2010

residential vacancy rates exceed

10% in Ohio’s major cities

Residential vacancy rates exceeded 10% in

Ohio’s mid- and small-sized cities, in 2010

Why Ohio needs demolition

Forces leading to blight are varied

Property decline=>neighborhood decline

can be slow or fast

Demolition is cost effective

In Ohio, the average cost of demolishing one

single family home ranges from $6,500-$12,000,

on average.

Renovating a blighted home often costs a

minimum of $30,000.

Demolition is not a end-solution

Vacant property can damage a neighborhood just as

much as a blighted property

Image from Lisa DeJong, Cleveland

Plain Dealer

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/06/

cleveland_property_foreclosure.html

Stabilize and Stimulate Markets with

Demolition as One StrategyDemolition used to protect housing investments in stronger

neighborhoods

“spot cleaning”

Demolition used to directly support large scale

redevelopment Strategic land assemblage

Demolition a successful tool when combined with other

strategies and when sensitive to neighborhood/market

context

Demolition is not a end-solution

Over $160 million from federal and state funds and

local matches directed towards demolition from

2010 to 2016

Intention of programs is to stabilize and stimulate

Ohio’s housing markets

Over 12,000 blighted properties removed between

2010-2014, another 7,000+ anticipated by 2016

Demolition to Stabilize and Stimulate Market

Programs encourage or require demolition in

targeted areas.

Target areas are neighborhoods that have the

potential to bounce back

Target areas often include a concentration of,

or proximity to, other assets, like transit lines,

employment centers, cultural institutions,

parks

Demolition to Stabilize and Stimulate Market

Target areas often in older, urban

neighborhoods

Urban neighborhoods have faced decline over

several decades but are becoming attractive

real estate markets, nationally

Ohio’s urban neighborhoods are beginning to

see repopulation and market recovery

Housing prices are higher in core urban

neighborhoods

Housing prices are higher in core urban

neighborhoods

Housing prices are higher in core urban

neighborhoods

Leading Demolition and Redevelopment

22 County land banks in state

• Another 22 counties eligible to create a land bank

Many county land banks actively and closely

partner with city departments

Land banks and local governments

increasingly partnering with nonprofits and

private sector for impact

Neighbors, nonprofits, public sector,

private sector, investors, etc share

common goal of stronger housing markets

Shared goals of financially, socially,

environmentally sustainable communities

Shared Goal: Strong Housing

Markets, Sustainable Communities

Thank you for your attendance!

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