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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

The City successfully advocated for a change to state law that would open up their ability to use in rem code lien foreclosure, a tool developed by Community Progress in 2019 for the city of Mobile. Implementing policy and practice changes that address vacancy is an enormous task, and many communities can’t do it alone.

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Meet the 2024-25 Cohort of Community Revitalization Fellows

Center for Community Progress

Each year, Community Progress welcomes grassroots community leaders to our Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF) program, where they collectively learn how to help their neighborhoods tackle vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. I stayed involved with the group over the years and became the Coterie Chair in 2019.