Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
The disproportionate impact in Ohio paved the way for Ohio’s General Assembly to pass a comprehensive county land bank statute in 2009. However, to fully understand how this legislation came to pass, and why it is helpful contextually to review the history of land banking and tax foreclosure in Ohio. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
First, the implementation timeline is rather long, as key recommendations are significantly dependent upon Congress passing legislation – and it must be assumed that such passage will require, at a minimum, at least several years. I find these recommendations lacking for four main reasons. 2 See [link].
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Center for Community Progress
AUGUST 17, 2023
One facet of the legislation stipulated that Michigan land banks must be created by intergovernmental collaboration between a county and the state land bank. In the 20 years since this legislation, Michigan has formed 48 county land banks, one city land bank (DLBA), and the state land bank, which serves the remaining 35 counties.
Center for Community Progress
AUGUST 12, 2024
Beginning with the founding of the Cuyahoga Land Bank in 2009 , his approach to land banking set a new standard for what these institutions could achieve. I still remember clearly our first work together in Cleveland brainstorming the possibility of legislation dealing with this strange thing called land banks.”
Center for Community Progress
AUGUST 30, 2022
Passed in 1977, the Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) is one of the most important pieces of legislation working to bring financial resources into historically underserved neighborhoods nationwide. You can read our comment here.
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
AUGUST 20, 2017
As we all know, the legal authority of public bureaucrats to make decisions resides in the delegation of discretion from elected legislators and executives, such as the president or state governors, to administrative agents. He passed away in 2009; yet, his legacy in the field of Public Administration continues to live on.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. Its replacement with a long and rambling piece of ad hoc legislation that veers from the draconian to the incomprehensible and back again is more reminiscent of North Korea or Belarus than it is of a western democracy.
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