The Book

Expand your insights from SCEMA by getting the definitive guide to creating, administering, and enforcing  land use regulations and building, housing, and nuisance abatement codes and procedures.
A complete update of California-based Solano Press’s Code Enforcement: A Comprehensive Approach, reflecting changes in the field and the legal, policy, and political complexities confronting code enforcement professionals today, such as zoning reform, housing preservation, hoarding, homeless encampments, and vacant properties. Addresses principles and practices for data-driven decision-making, proactive leadership, and cross-agency, cross-sector collaborations to advance community goals. Highlights innovative strategies and models from pioneering cities across the country, and examples of statutory and case law from California and other states. An essential reference for local government policymakers, planning and housing directors, municipal attorneys, prosecutors, code enforcement practitioners, and their nonprofit and community partners.
Topics include:
  • The elements of proactive, strategic code enforcement—the major actors, external forces, and core principles and practices
  • Legal, regulatory, policy, and planning foundations for code enforcement
  • Managing code enforcement operations
  • Investigating code enforcement cases
  • Selecting and using code enforcement remedies
  • Pursuing criminal prosecution
  • Taking civil judicial action
  • Defending code enforcement actions
  • Handling complex cases
For more information, please contact SCEMA co-Founder and co-Author Joe Schilling, at Jschilling@urban.org

AVAILABLE AUGUST 15TH, 2025.