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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

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. I wondered.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2 The report came about at a time when the FHLBs have been increasingly criticized for neglecting their housing and community development mission and instead using their subsidies and privileges to benefit their financial institution owners and executives. the legislation establishing them). mortgage originations.

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How the Tri-COG Land Bank is Transforming Vacant Properties in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

A land bank is a public entity with unique governmental powers that is solely focused on getting problem properties back to productive use according to local community goals. Secured annual funding from all members, using a formula based on the amount of delinquent taxes received by each member.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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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Emergency Home Repair Loans: Local Government as Financial Bridge

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The issue is addressed in two notices published by HUD on June 20, 2019, related to duplication of benefits for Community Development Block Grants – Disaster Recovery ( CDBG-DR ): 84 FR 28836 (June 2019 Duplication of Benefits Notice, referred to herein as the “ DOB Notice ”) and 84 FR 28848 (June 2019 Duplication of Benefits Implementation Notice).