| One particular bungalow that comes with red peeling | | | | They wish to find places to stay out of cold weather. |
| paint within the area of Liberty Park in Salt Lake City | | | | Several doors and windows have required boarding up |
| comes with every traditional foreclosure sign possible. | | | | within the last few months in order to keep doggedly |
| It is empty, the lawn has died and nobody has even | | | | determined people out and preventing them from |
| bothered to repair that one busted window. | | | | taking up residence in these places. |
| The zoning and housing officer of Salt Lake City takes | | | | Even though the officer's initial stops were in |
| a stroll around this house's weedy yard. A few weeks | | | | neighborhoods in Salt Lake City that were more |
| ago, one of the broken windows was boarded up well. | | | | modest, he was fast to pinpoint that the empty home |
| Today, the officer ensures that it is still safe and that | | | | problem was obvious in practically every single area |
| homeless families or people haven't found out some | | | | and price range. It doesn't happen to be a problem in |
| kind of way to get inside. Satisfied with everything in | | | | the west side or the east side; it happens to be a |
| order, the officer enters his car and drives to the | | | | problem everywhere. |
| following vacant house that he has to inspect on the | | | | In order to prove a point, he drove to a house a mere |
| same day. | | | | walk away from the country club of Salt Lake City |
| This officer, along with his counterparts within cities | | | | near the vicinities of Sugar House. The overall |
| throughout the Front of Wasatch have found | | | | assessed property value he stopped at stood at |
| themselves busy as of late while the amount of these | | | | almost $650,000. |
| distressed properties continued to grow. | | | | However, it also had every signs that distressed |
| Various neglected houses and yards say hello to Salt | | | | properties or foreclosures had – emptiness and a |
| Lake City's zoning and housing officer while he made | | | | lot of landscaping at practically an end with overgrown |
| his rounds around foreclosed homes this past month. | | | | or dead acre lots. The officer or somebody else will |
| Neighbors ended up calling with anger or concerns | | | | surely return to ensure that this property stays safe. |
| about broken doors and windows, unkempt yards and | | | | More than being a hazard or an annoyance, |
| various other issues despite municipalities being limited | | | | foreclosed houses could undermine the efforts of |
| in their abilities due to rights of private property. | | | | revitalization. Within the area of Rose Park, the |
| Empty houses could become havens when it comes | | | | community council chairman has watched over well |
| to crimes such as sales of drugs. Sanitation and health | | | | taken care of homes as they turned into messes after |
| would be one other issue whenever homeless people | | | | their occupants suddenly vanished last summer. Ever |
| decide to move into these properties where the utilities | | | | since those days, the lawns have died while the trees |
| got disconnected. And, while weather cools down, | | | | are hardly keeping up. Plus, they stand on corners |
| there would yet one more worry: fires that intruders | | | | where everyone can see them. |
| started in attempts to stay warm within empty houses. | | | | |