COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC

Our Mission: Community Reinvestment Partners, LLC serves community stakeholders by restoring blighted and problem properties via the conservatorship process. We champion change by donating 10% of our annual profits back to the communities we serve and targeting 20% of all projects to meet affordable and inclusionary housing standards.

Abandoned two-story red brick home in Chicago's Englewood neigbhorhood in winter

Eliminate Neighborhood Blight

We aim to eliminate neighborhood blight and restore properties to the tax rolls while being sensitive to the need for affordable housing and giving back to the community. As an integral part of our Mission Statement, we partner with select borough’s, townships, and neighborhood organizations to identify problem properties in effort to restore these properties to a serviceable condition, thereby enhancing neighboring property values and bolstering tax revenues.

Report Blighted Properties

Community Reinvestment Partners, LLC is a for-profit company formed for the purpose of addressing blight in targeted neighborhoods and communities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The corporation is comprised of experienced community development professionals with over 50 years of development experience. Additionally, the principals have initiated more than 100 conservatorships in Allegheny County and have demonstrable expertise in utilizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Abandoned and Blighted Property Conservatorship Act (2008).

Our principals live and work locally and are committed to the success of our communities. The team has extensive construction experience having completed numerous scattered-site real estate transactions and renovations which include rehabilitation, renovation, and in-fill new construction. Our expertise runs the gamut of residential, commercial, industrial, mixed use and vacant land redevelopment projects; with a proven track record.

We aim to eliminate blight and restore properties to the tax rolls while being sensitive to the need for affordability housing and charitable support. As an integral part of our Mission Statement, we partner with select boroughs, townships, and neighborhood organizations to identify problem properties. By restoring nuisance properties to a serviceable condition, we encourage neighboring property values and restoring properties to the tax rolls.

Conservatorship Process

Identification of blighted property meeting 3 of the 9 legal criteria established by statute.

Preparation of the petition including title report, scope of work, photos and proposed conservator.

Filing of the petition to the Court of Common Pleas.

Otification to interested parties including taxing authorities, secured lien holders and equitable owners.

Hearing to determine if property meets the qualifications for blight and nuisance.

Appointment of conservator.

Conservator completes scope of work to eliminate blight.

Conservator submits to court for disposition of the once-blighted property.

Community Affiliates

Bloomfield/Garfield Association

East Liberty Development Incorporated

Brentwood Borough

Baldwin Borough

Giving Back

Affordable Housing

We recognize the growing need for affordable housing in all neighborhoods. As part of our mission, we strive to meet affordable and inclusionary housing standards on 20% of all completed projects.

Community Groups

We recognize the value of community participation and actively seek to partner with townships, development groups and other stakeholders to eliminate blight and restore neighborhood vibrancy. The principals of Community Reinvestment Partners have supported our communities and have become an integral strategic resource in implementing their community development plan. We are sensitive to the challenges that groups face to fund their organizations. Consequently, part of our mission, our principals make donations to help fund our community partners.

Mortgage house for sale on the black backboard.

We actively work with borough’s, townships, and municipalities to identify abandoned properties that are negatively impacting neighboring properties to restore them to a serviceable condition and tax rolls.

We champion change by donating 10% of our annual profits back to the communities we serve.

Boarded up abandoned red brick home in Englewood on Chicago's South Side

How We Can Help

We can help neighbors by targeting a nuisance property.

We can help cities, boroughs, municipalities and neighborhood groups (using our own funds) to remediate blight and repurpose properties back to a productive use.

Report Blighted Properties

Report blighted properties in your neighborhood.

We provide the tools necessary for neighbors to “fight blight” and improve the quality of their neighborhoods. Use this form to report blighted properties in your neighborhood.