City to put $900,000 into more aggressive battle against blight
“The goal is to prosecute all of the cases in Chancery Court,” council member Rhonda Logan said. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
The City’s more aggressive stance on blighted properties is focused on taking court cases to Chancery Court instead of Environmental Court. The funding would fuel that effort and could be sustained with money from the sale of properties out of receivership.
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