Condemned property


A condemned property is one to which authorities have closed, seized, or placed restrictions on for various reasons including public health.

Examples

Municipalities of Cumberland, Maryland, were given the power to condemn and seize insanitary buildings in 1915.
In 2000, a Swedish researcher reports a case study in which after many years of puzzlement and contention, a building that housed government employees was condemned for sick building syndrome; that is, something indeterminate about the building itself made the occupants ill.