Community Development Legislation Stewardship 
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). Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021.
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. I wondered.
Center for Community Progress
JULY 18, 2022
But conditions in the community development landscape can also change quickly. In an example that West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett shared, property tax sale process reform efforts in West Virginia had stalled. , practitioners gained an important advocate. Couldn’t join us?
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). In The Community Land Trust Reader , edited by John Emmeus Davis, 259-268. Community Land Trusts and State Legislation: A Model Act to Enable This Affordable Housing Tool.” Decker, Andrew.
Center for Community Progress
APRIL 6, 2023
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. Community Progress has supported TCLB from the land bank’s inception and was recently engaged to lead the development of its 2023-27 Strategic Plan.
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