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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. More often than not, Albuquerque property owners whose uncorrected code violations prompted city intervention were not paying up.
From 2015 to 2019, the city’s Code Enforcement Division issued $2.9 million in liens to recover money it spent cleaning up weeds or litter infractions, demolishing vacant problem properties or performing emergency board-ups.
But it recouped just $1.3 million in that span.
That was a finding in a 2020 report from the Office of Internal Audit that helped spur change. The Planning Department has worked with city information technology staff to streamline reporting systems, and it assigned an employee to specifically work on the Code Enforcement Division’s books.