Drive to curtail blight underway by CAB, Post-Signal

Over many decades, the city-wide accumulation and unabated growth in the number of abandoned and deteriorating homes and buildings is a scourge on our community. The volunteer organization Citizens Against Blight (CAB) was established in the spring of 2021 to enlighten the community and document this terrible problem, raise awareness of the awful plague, and push all citizens in Crowley to come together to solve it.
Scattered throughout the city nearly 450 structures have been identified by CAB as candidates for submittal to the City of Crowley Code Enforcement Office for official evaluation and possible condemnation.
Condemnation is intended to result in either repair or demolition of a structure. CAB expects to turn in several cases each month to Code Enforcement that CAB volunteers have identified for evaluation and processing in order to get such structures repaired or demolished.
The Post-Signal has agreed to publish photos of such cases once a month to help heighten and maintain public awareness that this alarming and dangerous trend must not only be arrested, but also be reversed.
For anyone needing assistance with the process of condemnation and demolition of such structures, CAB can be contacted through the chairman of the Steering Committee that was appointed by Mayor Monceaux. The CAB Steering Committee chairman, Emily Stoma, can be reached at 337-523-6044.
CAB’s assistance is free of charge. The Post-Signal will be publishing more photos in future issues to help keep this problem in the public view and discourse.