Birmingham United Neighborhoods

Magic City Blight Busters (MCBB) is a project to address abandoned and deteriorated homes, overgrown lots and litters considered a plague to the detriment of Birminghams neighborhoods. MCBB will energize and coordinate neighborhood residents to adopts areas for clean up and maintenance. The Blight Mobile will swoop in on overgrown lots and pick up trash, cut weeds/brush, put in fauz windows/doors on abandoned houses. Residents will be empowered to use land bank policies and city code to revitalize their communities consistent with Framework Plans. After evaluating pilot interventions, MCBB will disseminate a toolbox of best practices, instructions, templates, and list of materials for any community to address blight.