The City of Lansing is working hard to get red-tagged houses out of the public domain to increase safety and neighborhood aesthetics.
According to excerpts from the article:
The city of Lansing has increased its code enforcement over the last few years, tagging homes for three levels of safety violations—green, yellow and red. That has meant a spike in tags after 2004, when only 223 were issued. For this year, the city had issued 920 tags through Oct. 10.
Officials say heightened enforcement has resulted in more demolitions of the worst homes and quicker repairs for the rest.
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