blight
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This market-driven renewal filled vacant lots and derelict sites, reduced blight, converted nonperforming parcels into taxpaying assets and created billions of dollars in new wealth for existing homeowners, with little evidence of widespread displacement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
This pothole was merely one of more than a million that blight our roads.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
John Shallman, a spokesperson for the billboard blight campaign who used to work with the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
He believes these will help “reverse the blight of social disintegration” and provide “freedom from the state as well as the market.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
"Thankfully, the blight that's wiped out the other parks hasn't hit here. Yet."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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