SEARCH: Is Your House Up to Code?
City updates its recent comprehensive housing strategy. Nearly half of the homes that "needed work" got fixed up.
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. Lakewood Patch has compiled a complete database to look up the properties in Lakewood that need some work. While most of the homes improved since the city's initial survey, 44 homes dropped into the "needs work" category. Also, city officials didn’t resurvey the ‘twos’ because the focus areas were on the 'threes.' City officials point out that most of the issues are minor: peeling paint, cracked driveways, broken fences. The …
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Colin McEwen
10:06 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012
Thanks for pointing that out, Sarah. I got it! more ›