City’s Pilot Vacant Home Receivership Program Under Way

Press release from the City of Greensboro:

Post Date:11/04/2020 7:00 AM

The City of Greensboro invites developers, investors, builders, and organizations with proven experience and expertise, to submit a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to be recommended for appointment as a receiver to carry out needed repairs or demolition of blighted residential properties.

When: Respond to this RFQ by 3 pm December 2
What: To be part of the City’s pilot Vacant Housing Receivership Pilot Initiative

The City has created this program to more quickly bring abandoned, dilapidated and deteriorating properties up to minimum housing standards so they may be returned to the community as safe, healthy, and affordable housing for future occupants.

The pilot initiative is now underway, which is the RFQ process. Qualified people and groups (for-profit and non-profit contracting firms, property development firms, property management companies, etc.) willing to be appointed by a Guilford County Superior Court judge as an independent authority to carry out needed repairs or demolition on Greensboro properties are encouraged to apply.

Learn more about the pilot program on this Web page. For information about the next steps of this initiative, refer to the section of this Web page titled “Greensboro’s Receivership Program Overview.”

According to City Neighborhood Development Department staff, communities like Greensboro across the country are moving to a receivership process to take quicker action to:

• Prevent neighborhood deterioration resulting from the condition of these properties
• Increase available and affordable housing
• Create jobs in the construction and property management industries.

“Greensboro has a vested interest in repairing the unsafe minimum housing standards for these properties to create safe, healthy, and affordable housing for its future occupants, which will improve our neighborhoods,” says Troy Powell, manager of Neighborhood Development’s Code Compliance Division, which will manage the program.

This press release was produced by the City of Greensboro. The views expressed here are the author’s own.