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In Sunnyvale, California, a single-family home sat in severe disrepair for decades. Despite repeated notices and code enforcement efforts, conditions only worsened, with unsafe electrical wiring, dilapidated walls, mountains of trash and debris, rodent infestations, and overgrown vegetation that blocked emergency exits.

A successful health & safety receivership restores order to a long-neglected residential property. After years of unresolved code violations and deteriorating conditions, a single family home in Fresno is now secure, cleaned out, and poised for sale—thanks to the use of a health and safety receivership.

In August 2023, the City of Citrus Heights filed a petition in Sacramento County Superior Court to appoint a receiver for a severely substandard single-family home. This case highlights how cities across California, Arizona, Nevada, and beyond can use Health & Safety Receiverships to address dangerous, abandoned, or uninhabitable properties that threaten public health and neighborhood stability.