Austin Harrison

This year the Blight Elimination Steering Team’s Code Enforcement and Data Committees have made it a priority to release and consistently update a Top 10 List of Code Enforcement Violators in the City of Memphis each quarter. The list for the fourth quarter (October through December) of 2018 is now available here and may be previewed below. This list is compiled using publicly available data and is a completely objective representation of actionable and easy to understand information. It is our…

Memphis City Beautiful has partnered with Mayor Strickland and the City of Memphis to launch the 901 Keep it Clean public information campaign. Research shows that a major demographic of litterers are young women and men ages 16-34. This campaign will educate the public on the negative impact litter and blight has on the city. A major goal is to start a discussion focused on anti-littering and blight and serve as a call-to-action for general pride in our city. How can…

The Memphis City Council voted to approve the use of the International Property Maintenance Code in Memphis on December 18th. We are excited on the application of this code by Department of Public Works Code Enforcement Inspectors. You can find the text of the International Property Maintenance Code below.   ICC Code Section IPMC Amended for Memphis, Tennessee   SECTION 101 GENERAL   101.1 Title.     These regulations shall be known as the International Property Maintenance Code of the City of…

This year the Blight Elimination Steering Team’s Code Enforcement and Data Committees have made it a priority to release and consistently update a Top 10 List of Code Enforcement Violators in the City of Memphis each quarter. The list for the third quarter of the year, July through September of 2018 is now available here. This list is compiled using publicly available data and is a completely objective representation in an actionable and easy to understand form. It is our goal…

In April of this year we released a map and list of the Top 10 Code Violators in Memphis for the first 3 months of 2018 completing one of the key action items of the Blight Elimination Steering Team’s current action plan. Now the Top 10 list for the next three months of this year is available, to continue raising public awareness for sub-standard property ownership that negatively impacts ALL Memphis neighborhoods. The data used for this report comes from…

One of the Action Items of the Blight Elimination Steering Team’s Code Enforcement Committee for this year was to “determine and report the top ten code violators by volume in the City.” In accordance with this action item, the first Top 10 Code Violators list has been compiled and published raising awareness for some of the city’s most negligent property owners and in what neighborhoods are these properties. The data used for this report comes from the Memphis Property Hub…