How to intervene: How to identify housing blight 101

There are many ways in which housing blight can be identified.

This semester, before we actually dove into the project, we had to determine what housing blight was, both society’s definition and our own, —–, and lastly determine what housing blight looked like. Once we were able to create our own definition and needed to go out to visualize what it actually was. In order to do so, we took a self-guided walking tour around a popular community known for having blighted houses. While taking this tour, we noticed houses that looked obviously abandoned and others that was harder to determine its vacancy.  That is where this desire to write a snip on to detect housing blight steamed from.

There are many obvious factors that we noticed as we took the walking tour, that proved one’s house was indeed blighted. I will discuss three common characteristics of a blighted house. All of the array of community problems, are considered unsanitary or unsafe conditions.

An obvious sign for a blighted house is typically broken or boarded up windows. By noticing that a house is indeed blighted, it’s easier to identify if they are boarded windows. The structures and foundation of the house will literally begin to deteriorate.

Another obvious sign of a blighted house is unkempt lawn services. When ones’ grass Is growing incredibly tall, whether you can’t afford it or just quit those people don’t deserve the other explaining there. Typically houses that are abandoned by their owners have fallen trees or limbs after terrible storms or extremely tall grasses in their yards because they don’t monitor it well enough.

Lastly, another typical sign of a blighted house are old fixtures. Old fixtures can be quite broad of a description. However, when I say old fixtures, I mean told things such as cars, trailers, storage units and things of that caliber. These old fixtures are typically on the lawn and surrounded by the unkempt lawn. It takes