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. 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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Stewardship Legislation Advocacy Parks And Recreation 98

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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. Meehan, James. Miller, Stephen R.

Housing 92

Housing Local Government Community Development Laws 92

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JANUARY 4, 2022

building her mountain craft since 2014, when she graduated from corporate life with a one-way ticket to South America. The importance of being a responsible steward of the land and how local park and recreation professionals can provide educational opportunities around environmental stewardship.

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Parks And Recreation Stewardship Leadership Education 40

Center for Community Progress

JUNE 13, 2023

Between 2014 and 2020, the city of Detroit demolished nearly 20,000 vacant properties, mostly single-family homes, adding to the nearly 100,000 vacant lots already dotting the city, the result of earlier demolitions stretching back decades.

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Housing Sustainability Public Service Stewardship 110

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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.

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Management Social Media Stewardship Communications 52