Tuesday, November 13, 2012
City follows up on its comprehensive Residential Housing Survey. Of the 1,741 homes in Lakewood that “needed work,” almost half of them were improved over the summer.
Corrrection: 858 homes were reported improved. The previous version of this story had the wrong number of houses. After the city finished up the work of its comprehensive Residential Housing Survey earlier this year, the residents who received notices in their mailboxes began the work of fixing up their homes. The result? Of the 1,741 homes in Lakewood that “needed work,” almost half of them were improved over the summer. Most of the issues were minor: peeling paint, cracked driveways, broken fences. The updated housing survey map (to the right) shows hundreds of color-speckled dots on a satellite image of Lakewood telling the story of the current state of the city’s aging housing stock. Red is bad, green is good. There’s now more green …
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
City’s comprehensive housing survey doesn’t do enough to explain ratings, some Lakewood Patch readers say.
It seems that some residents who used Lakewood Patch’s housing database — with data collected by the city on more than 11,000 homes — have a few questions. About 1,700 homes in Lakewood need some help getting up to housing code, according to the city’s Residential Housing Survey. However, the data doesn’t explain why homeowners got their specific rating. That’s unsettling to some Lakewood Patch readers, who sounded off on Tuesday. Homes with one infraction were given an “almost meets (code)” rating. Dru Siley, the city’s director of planning and development, said those issues can include peeling paint, homes without a posted address or a cracked driveway. “It’s usually minor stuff,” he said. “We ask people to take a good, honest look at …
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
About 14 percent of Lakewood's homes don't meet city code. So we've put together a searchable database to help you find out if your home is one of them.
More than 1,700 homes in Lakewood need some help getting up to housing code. That’s according to the city’s finished comprehensive housing survey. Lakewood Patch has compiled a complete database to look up the properties in Lakewood that need some work. However, city officials said that since the housing survey was finished in March, about 50 property owners have fixed their issues. Earlier this year, the city released the initial results of the study — with Ward 4 data not yet available — following months of neighborhood canvassing. Hundreds of color-speckled dots on a satellite image of Lakewood tell the story of the current state — as well as the future — of the city’s aging housing stock. Red is bad, green is good. Last summer, city …
ian king
3:40 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Hi - good news about Lakewood's private/residential properties being repaired/restored, but what about our city's many commercial, rental properties? Particulary, the East Side of Lakewood - along Edgewater, Clifton, Lake - all have rental buildings in various states of disrepair/aging decline - with no apparent landlord initiative/incentive to restore these becoming "eyesore" buildings. What is … more ›