Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. CP: You played a key role in advocating for West Virginia’s land bank-enabling legislation.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

By Tarik Abdelazim , Director, National Technical Assistance, Center for Community Progress Before I came to Community Progress, I spent eight years in public service in my hometown, Binghamton, New York. Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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). In The Community Land Trust Reader , edited by John Emmeus Davis, 259-268. Decker, Andrew.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

If you’re wondering “What can I do about vacant properties in my community?” Revise laws and ordinances and change problematic policies and practices. But conditions in the community development landscape can also change quickly. Couldn’t join us?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In recent years, the System has been subject to growing criticism that it has been inadequately supporting the housing and community development mission given to it by Congress. 6 This was totally inconsistent with the original design. 6 This was totally inconsistent with the original design. This works as follows.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 30, 2022

On August 5 th , 2022, Community Progress and forty-three supporting organizations across the country submitted a public comment calling for the modernized Community Reinvestment Act to center racial equity and embed land banking strategies. You can read our comment here. Recognize the work of land banks as CRA-eligible.

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