Last year, the Mississippi Legislature approved funds to demolish and remove blighted properties around the state. The city of Jackson is getting $250,000 to pay contractors to bulldoze the buildings.

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Albany is cracking down on dilapidated or blighted properties across the city by encouraging owners to take adequate care of their properties. City commissioners attribute the ...

After years of legal battles followed by months of delays, the blighted, long-abandoned Hotel O is finally being demolished. "Hotel O is coming down," Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said to ...

Photo by Susan Cameron. A bill that would allow localities to sell derelict properties — requested by Bristol officials searching for a solution to the blighted, burned-out former campus of Virginia ...