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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. Photo courtesy of WVLSC.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). Meehan, 2014). A few local governments have granted eminent domain takings power to CLT partners to acquire dilapidated adjacent land (Meehan 2014). 2 (2014): 113-133. Davis, John E. Meehan, James.

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