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.

Dept. Building & Housing Presentation 2.27.2014 by Brian Cummins