{"id":584,"date":"2014-08-27T05:31:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T09:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=584"},"modified":"2014-08-26T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T02:26:45","slug":"about-100-abandoned-homes-may-be-demolished-in-brick-under-state-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/08\/about-100-abandoned-homes-may-be-demolished-in-brick-under-state-program\/","title":{"rendered":"About 100 Abandoned Homes May Be Demolished in Brick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Homes in Brick Township\u2019s Camp Osborn section are demolished in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. (Photo Credit: FEMA)<\/p><\/div>\n

State officials have reduced a list of about 200 homes the township submitted to the state Department of Community Affairs to approximately 100 homes that will be slated for demolition under a federally funded program that is being administered by the state agency.<\/p>\n

The program \u2013 initially conceived by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in the wake of the real estate crisis of 2008 \u2013 may prove extra useful in Brick since homes remain abandoned since Superstorm Sandy to the detriment of the neighborhoods around them, officials have said.<\/p>\n

Under the program, the township develops a list of abandoned properties and submits it to the state, which then deploys inspectors to identify whether or not a property in question adheres to the program\u2019s requirements. Township officials have said homes included on the list must be \u201ctruly abandoned\u201d and in a dangerously poor condition for over six months with no construction work planned. It also must be uninhabitable and beyond repair.<\/p>\n

The list of about 200 homes \u201cwas generated, generally, through our code department,\u201d Business Administrator Joanne Bergin said, with input from both elected officials and residents who called the township with complaints of abandoned properties.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this day, my office gets three or four [calls] a week saying, \u2018Hey, this house has been empty since Sandy,\u2019\u201d said Mayor John Ducey. \u201cIt\u2019s based on this process of the whole town telling us where these houses are that the list was developed.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the program isn\u2019t limited to Sandy-affected homes; any abandoned property in Brick could have been added to the list.<\/p>\n

Under the program, Bergin said, the township would not take ownership of the property in question. Rather, the state would include it on a demolition list and would simply remove the building in question. The program comes at no cost to the township, Bergin added.<\/p>\n

Ducey said the number of houses included in the program could eventually be whittled down even further as the state continues to send inspectors to each property. Also, he said, the state is looking to competitively bid the demolitions by advertising several properties at a time.<\/p>\n

Bergin said there was no final timeline set as to when the demolitions would begin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are waiting for word back from them on the properties in Brick that they will be demolishing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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State officials have reduced a list of about 200 homes the township submitted to the state Department of Community Affairs to approximately 100 homes that will be slated for demolition under a federally funded program that is being administered by the state agency. The program \u2013 initially conceived by the federal Department of Housing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,157,24,156],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-abandoned-homes","tag-abandoned-houses","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-demolition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/demolition_osborn2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-9q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}