Owners of blighted properties in The City could be punished for allowing their buildings to fall into disrepair, according to new legislation to be introduced today.
The Department of Public Works would be empowered to go after owners of blighted properties and even perform the repair work and stick owners with the bill afterward.
Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, who will introduce his legislation today at the Board of Supervisors meeting, said a blighted property – of which he estimated there were hundreds in San Francisco’s poorest neighborhoods – “really is an indignity as well as an economic depressant for communities.”…[SF Examiner]
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