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Health And Safety Receivership: California's Cure For Zombie Foreclosures, Vacant, And Other Nuisance Properties, Ryan Griffith Esq.
Health And Safety Receivership: California's Cure For Zombie Foreclosures, Vacant, And Other Nuisance Properties, Ryan Griffith Esq.
Lincoln Memorial University Law Review Archive
Almost every city or county has abandoned, fire damaged, vacant or other nuisance properties. The majority these properties sit abandoned and blight communities for years with no solution in sight. However, California has solution for these longstanding nuisance properties known as Health and Safety “H & S” receiverships. The statutory authority for H &S receiverships is found at California Health and Safety Code (“HSC”) §§ 17980.6 and 17980.7. Abandoned, vacant and other nuisance properties surface in a variety of ways. However, a few of the most common occurrences are:Deceased property owners without heirs; Zombie foreclosures; Hoarders and other mental health …