The stlvacancy.com website features a new neighborhood map, where residents can connect with associations and groups working to improve the places they live. Residents can click on their neighborhood in the map, and on the left side, contact information and website links will appear.
The nonprofit group Better Family Life says $20 million in funding largely didn't materialize, undermining efforts to revitalize Page Boulevard.
Aldermen say they’re looking at ways to spur sales of the city’s vast inventory of vacant properties.
Jeff-Vander-Lou once was a national model for community-led redevelopment. Now it's home to more than 2,000 vacant properties.Â
"Black St. Louisans are disproportionately harmed by lead poisoning, asthma, mold, and high energy costs."
The next event will be held Oct. 26 in the Walnut Park East neighborhood.
Hillsdale Demolition is one of about 30 local companies helping the city of St. Louis accomplish its goal of demolishing vacant buildings. Since the beginning of 2018, Hillsdale was awarded more than an estimated $825,000 by the city for demolition of vacant property, according to city data.
Demolition of abandoned, broken buildings is on the rise. The number of properties held by the city’s land bank is down. Contractors are, for the most part, following a new, safer demolition protocol.
The city wants your help identifying problems. But sometimes that isn’t enough. As people are poised to swarm the 109 city parks this spring and summer, spot checks by the Post-Dispatch found broken fixtures, trash and other issues that point to neglect. Forest Park, the crown jewel of the parks system, has a $115 million endowment to keep it up to snuff. In the north and south, grittier realities are at play.Â
It's designed to help buyers and sellers in areas where low appraisals deter conventional mortgage lending.
But the controversial developer, who still controls hundreds of properties near the new NGA campus, says he deserves credit for ‘remarkable results.’
More than 2,600 St. Louis children have measurable levels of lead in their blood, which can lead to brain damage.
They attract problems, and keep first responders busy.
Living in the city's broken buildings, a homeless population the region hasn't reached.
The bungalow on Louisiana Avenue stood for 93 years, but couldn't escape the 'march of time' in a city that's seen better days.
Bricks from a demolished south St. Louis bungalow were transported 700 miles to southern Louisiana, where they were used to build a pool house near Houma.
ST. LOUIS • As Jason Sweeten used a shovel to scoop up trash in an alley, gospel music played from an iPhone tucked in his pocket.
'It is never ever going to get better until you start. Someone has to start doing something.'
The lack of private lending north of Delmar Boulevard is a major obstacle to the city's vacancy-fighting efforts.Â
Reducing its inventory is going to take changes in state law, additional staff.Â
Reporters Janelle O'Dea, Celeste Bott and Jacob Barker discuss their reporting on St. Louis's 25,000-plus vacant properties and Mayor Lyda Krewson's efforts to make the issue a top priority on City Hall's agenda.
Jennifer Walter, 49, lives next door to two vacant homes in Walnut Park East, across the street from Walbridge Elementary School. Video by Robert Cohen
Some neighborhoods may be beyond saving; others need help now. Â
St. Louis has wrestled with the consequences of property abandonment and disinvestment for a long time. Here's a quick history.Â
St. Louis has more than 7,000 vacant buildings, the city estimates.
For a problem of this scale, getting an accurate number is tricky.Â
Brick workers like Tieruse Cox salvage bricks from abandoned homes that have been torn down. It is a chance for workers to earn money while helping the city remove vacant properties.
Here are links to a handful of reports, studies and other resources that may prove helpful.
St. Louis has no shortage of dilapidated structures — or ideas to address the problem. Here's a look at recent Post-Dispatch coverage.
For residents in some north St. Louis neighborhoods, wait times to get an issue resolved through the Citizens’ Service Bureau can be three times longer than in some areas of south city.
This week: Janelle O'Dea, Celeste Bott and Doug Moore talk about their collection of stories detailing the city's struggle to maintain trash collections. Find out what the city thinks it can do to help the situation, why some residents think it's a hopeless case, and how it all began in the …
The mayor says cleaning up a city long viewed as a dumping ground will take a 'sustained effort.'
Too few trucks. Not enough refuse workers. Widespread illegal dumping. Overflowing dumpsters. 'It's unbearable,' says a longtime resident.
James and Arlene Price have lived in their home in the Greater Ville neighborhood of St. Louis for 50 years. The couple has struggled to deal with the illegal dumping that frequently occurs in the alley behind their house.
