Thursday, February 27, 2014

Department of Building & Housing Budget Presentation 2.27.2014

The following is the presentation from the City's Department of Building & Housing to Cleveland City Council as a part of the City's budget hearings.

Highlights/excerpts:

Budget Goal:  ...implement strategies designed to stabilize neighborhoods and support market recovery.

2013 Performance Outputs:

  • Inspections 2013:  12,899 requests- over half were inspections of vacant houses.
    • 93,715 total property inspections, requests, condemnations, permits etc...
  • Demolitions: 1,087 at a cost of $9.8 million.
    • Since 2006 7,604 demolitions at a cost of more than $59 million.
  • Structures awaiting demolition:  2,500; 750 more condemned structures in final legal review.
  • Boarded & secured: 4,102 structures.
  • Court filings: 1,323.
  • Nuisance abatement costs prepared for billing, recovered or certified to the real estate tax duplicate in 2013: $15.9 million.
  • Comprehensive vacant property inventory: 8,362 structures.
    • 7,513 (89%) residential structures (1 to 3 units).
    •    198 mixed use structures.
    •    290 commercial structures.
  • Construction Permits: 15,746 with a value of $900 million.
  • Construction plans received and reviewed: 2,109.

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