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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Starting the week of Oct. 2, the city will launch a new program to identify and abate nuisance properties.</p><p>The program, named &#8220;Taking It to the Streets,&#8221; is a proactive approach and places building, health, and rental inspectors on neighborhood streets to look for building and health code violations, the city said in a press release Thursday. The program will supplement Neighborhood Impact Team sweeps that also addresses nuisance properties.</p><p>&#8220;Taking It to the Streets&#8221; will be a weekly operation sending teams of inspectors to survey an assigned neighborhood for a day. The first neighborhoods will be those with a higher-than-average number of complaints.</p><p>&#8220;This pre-emptive approach will identify nuisance properties in each neighborhood. While we will continue to address nuisance properties through tips from residents, this &#8216;neighborhood-by-neighborhood&#8217; strategy will save time and energy as we tackle these properties,&#8221; Mayor Tony George said.</p><style>
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Wilkes-Barre to launch nuisance property monitoring program