CORRECTION: The city's tax auction is in October, not December.

The list currently contains about 4480 properties but has many errors. In addition, it will be whittled down over time as owners pay delinquent tax bills & late payment penalties, plus the $442 fee to remove the property from the auction list.

The taskforce obviously needs to revisit the deadly impact of sprawl in the suburbs . . relentless new housing construction in a county with stagnant population. And in the city, a frenzy of heavily subsidized new construction as the city plans to demolish 10,000 abandoned buildings over a decade. Taxpayers demolish, taxpayers rebuild . . it is unsustainable.

The pattern in a city with about 25,000 housing vacancies is demolish-rebuild, when it needs to be demolish-rehab.

The city just published its tax auction list of several thousand properties on May 22, which can be accessed by street or zipcode at:

http://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/applicat...g/default.aspx

There are also links to the data in Excel or Access versions.

The annual city tax auction is held in December.