The State Role In Urban Land Redevelopment

"...Not only cities bear the responsibility of addressing vacant and abandoned land and structures. State governments play an important role also, because local improvement of the redevelopment process often depends on state-level legislative reform that is not always forthcoming. Hence this paper, which summarizes an extensive survey of state legislative and program initiatives, and identifies a significant number of powers states can exploit to energize local redevelopment efforts.

Thanks to Brookings Center