That would be all well and good were it to impact only the one property owner not maintaining their home in a given city. This being a pretty affluent and decent sized suburb of Minneapolis, one would tend to think they take these kinds of things pretty seriously.
Within the city limits there are always going to be other houses well within eye shot; the relative state of repair or disrepair they are in will either enhance or take away from or the general area as a whole. One person dragging down a city block’s worth of home values because they decide to drag their feet and disregard court orders does not garner my sympathies one whit!
Others have suggested that the affected neighbors move. That’s a ridiculous notion! The affected neighbors did not sign on to being forced to let their property value be depressed by one citizen’s thoughtless disregard. It is not a trivial thing to sell a home nowadays and move. Uprooting your entire family because one person is not responsible or wants to live outside the laws they agreed to live with when they moved into any given area (be it a township, a city, a county, state or whatever) is an outrageous proposition for anyone on this forum to take.
Lest I repeat myself, there are several odd positions being taken here on this forum; a place where people claim to have high regard for a supposed core value of personal responsibility.
Flout a court order and there are consequences...