The following day, a community liaison interviews each of the occupants and begins a search for relocation of the occupants to safe housing. The liaison will use City, community, and private resources to relocate the occupants. The case is added for discussion at the weekly Team meetings and staff suggest possible actions for resolution. The occupants are placed in safe housing and both the community liaison and a health officer follow up with them to ensure they are provided with any services they may need. Based on this example, it is clear that quite frequently more than one City agency is involved in providing permanent solutions to environmental blight in neighborhoods.
Most cases require the expertise of health, housing, safety, and social service officers.
The knowledge and actions of these officers partnered with community resources allows for improved service to the residents and more efficient use of limited City funds. The office tracks several important statistics related to its priorities for housing, zoning, health, enforcement, and crime in the community. The results reflect favorably on the services it has provided during its first year, clearly revealing that the overall environment in Franklinton is showing improvement. The number of written orders and legal actions taken for housing and zoning violations totaled 445, with a compliance of seventy percent, slightly higher than the citywide compliance rate of sixty-three percent. The compliance rate showed significant improvements from the previous year, particularly in housing, which showed a dramatic rise of 32 percent.