Just got back from the lunch session where I got some video of Michael Nutter speaking to and taking questions from a room of urban economic development professionals. Of course, the reception he got was pretty warm. Nutter got the rock star treatment that Bono seemed to get from the folks in the Inquirer/Daily News building a little while ago.
I'm going to scarf down some food real quick and do a post that includes the recommendations made by this group for Philadelphia's next mayor.
Stay tuned.
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Please collect the overdue property taxes no matter who the owner is by sending the property to Sheriff sale or selling the lien to a private collector.
That's what Rendell did his first year in office to create the $80 million surplus, and he only did it on a handful of potential properties.
Nutter has to collect on all properties that owe, blindly as Lady Justice.
The system is so abused, even the properties that make it to sheriff sale are listed by ward. Not by zip code, so you know where in the heck they are, no.
By election ward. What does that tell you?
The process is too interfered with by councilmanic forces to work.
Don't believe me? Check it out: www.phillysheriff.com
Don't forget to ask Nutter to have ALL sheriff sales listed online, not just the privately held liens, but the liens the city is in charge of collecting.
The city has to be held accountable for sending so little of this decades long unpaid property tax property to foreclosure.
Then the ward leaders tell you this property has no value, when Linebarger is selling properties next door that are going for $70,000 to $150,000!!!!!
The city his holding too much property, and is not collecting the debts that are years and years old.
That debt, or liens, are not just property taxes, either. How can you sell PGW if you don't let PGW collect that "bad debt" at foreclosure for nonpayment against the property?
Who is ever going to get to the bottom of the story of why the city lets properties sit and contribute nothing to the footprint after a real estate boom where properties reenter the marketplace?
No wonder housing is expensive. The supply is choked off by a city that won't hold it's owners accountable.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2007 8:04 PM