...and there has been a marked improvement in the neighborhoods because of the work, said John Kemp, the senior housing inspector for the Department of Housing and Neighborhood Development. When one house is rehabilitated, the whole neighborhood...
...blocking the streets. They lobbied for and got their own community police officer, and they are working with the city housing inspector, Tommy Paradise, to track down owners of abandoned property that invites crime and debris and lowers the values...
...leave with beer bottles or cups that might end up on the ground. The city is cracking down on speeders and has its housing inspector tracking down the owners of abandoned properties that invite vandalism and drug deals. A separate effort is under...
...according to city officials. Mr. Hooper declined to be interviewed for this article, but Augusta's senior housing inspector Larry Lariscy said the house is just another of the complicated cases the city must deal with, each with a story...
...Administrative Salaries for a Housing and Economic Recovery Act program manager, an administrative assistant and a housing inspector. Travel, equipment and supplies costs. (Up to 10 percent of the funds can be used for this purpose, and Augusta...
...they just take it upon themselves and take it and board it up," said James Mathis, a code enforcement officer and housing inspector. But that isn't enough, he said. Property owners often do little more than haphazardly slap boards on the windows...
...He said graffiti, depending on where it's sprayed, can cost up to $1,000 to remove. Larry Lariscy, senior housing inspector for the Richmond County License and Inspection Department, said business owners have 30 days to remove graffiti...
...Folly Beach when the home was built in 2000. But three years of erosion have taken so much sand away, the beach's housing inspector once condemned the home. Schultz was eventually let back in the house, and she built a protective wall of sandbags...
...find something wrong with every building in the county," said Larry E. Lariscey III, the department's senior housing inspector. "So it's got to be subject to the investigator's interpretations." After notifying property owners of an...
...went to see the work at their Moore Street home firsthand. What he saw prompted him to return a week later with housing inspector Ralph Kirksey, contractor Mack Curry and Mr. Mack. Mr. Cheek and Commissioner Marion Williams, harsh critics...
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