Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 22, 2025
This one is from February 2014. When I do searches for articles within the blog, I come across articles that remain in draft form, as I never got around to finishing them. Most of these drafts I delete, but this reads well and is worth publishing, even if it is 11 years late.
Center for Community Progress
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. CP: You played a key role in advocating for West Virginia’s land bank-enabling legislation. The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year.
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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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
And I "argued" with her about various legislative initiatives that at the end of the day, had no impact, because they provided no additional remedies to give citizens the power to respond to and potentially stop things they didn't like, by providing a process for review and participation.
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Meehan, 2014). A few local governments have granted eminent domain takings power to CLT partners to acquire dilapidated adjacent land (Meehan 2014). Community Land Trusts and State Legislation: A Model Act to Enable This Affordable Housing Tool.” 2 (2014): 113-133. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 2, 2023
In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. For example, in the 2014 planning cycle, the statewide target for housing growth was one million units.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System.
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