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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC). The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year. in West Virginia.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Meehan, 2014). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The first problem is that it uses vast, and increasing, amounts of energy, which does not help bring climate change under control, or enable the careful stewardship of the planet's resources. The advent of social media came with a wave of optimism about their utility in reducing disaster risks and impacts (Alexander 2014). Bitussi, I.