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Sheriff Rochelle Bilal, Mayor Cherelle Parker trade blame over failure to sell tax-delinquent properties since 2021

No one can agree who is to blame. But millions of dollars in tax revenue is going uncollected and blighted land can’t be auctioned off for potential redevelopment.

The abandoned historical building with a collapsed wall near Drexel University is in high demand. But no one has been able to purchase and rehabilitate it because the city's tax-sale process is broken.
The abandoned historical building with a collapsed wall near Drexel University is in high demand. But no one has been able to purchase and rehabilitate it because the city's tax-sale process is broken.Read moreHeather Khalifa / Staff Photographer