It was removed from distressed status in approximately 2006, but has since applied for status as a "blighted" community.

That distinction, Ms. Kimmelman said, belongs to the blighted community in which the school exists.

Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore is one of West Baltimore's most blighted and problematic communities.

"North Bellport was perhaps the most blighted community of Suffolk County," said Jim Morgo, the county's commissioner of economic development and work force housing.

The Borough requested removal from distressed status in approximately 2006, but has since applied for status as a "blighted" community.

The Clinton Administration has proposed a new way to channel credit into blighted communities.

That's what happened in New Cassel, a blighted and long-neglected community farther west in Nassau County.

Displaced members of blighted urban communities (what is a housing project but a vertical village, after all) have been shuffled off to the west and south.

Local officials say it will bring desperately needed jobs and investment into their blighted community.

He presents a scorching critique of efforts to revitalize blighted urban communities, going back to the end of World War II.