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Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement Could Be the Missing Piece in Fighting Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

In Lake County, Indiana, Community Progress found that from 2009-2014 on average 92% of tax liens did not sell, leaving over 10,000 likely abandoned properties recycling through the system each year. In many communities, delinquent property tax enforcement systems also unfairly burden communities of color.

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