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
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
The city wants KPC to more clearly show that it has a credible plan to get construction permits, fix blight in the near term and demonstrate that it can fund the purchase and renovation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
People had begun leaving in 1913, when the phylloxera blight ruined the currants.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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