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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

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.

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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

Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks. After New York passed this landmark land bank-enabling legislation, I worked with County and local officials to help establish the Broome County Land Bank in 2012, one of the first land banks in the state. I wondered.

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Lessons from 2022 VAD Academy

Center for Community Progress

Understanding the dynamics of small areas like individual properties, blocks, and neighborhoods is key to developing revitalization strategies tailored to block-by-block needs. But conditions in the community development landscape can also change quickly. Couldn’t join us?

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

Center for Community Progress

They are created pursuant to state-enabling legislation which gives them unique powers like the ability to cost-effectively acquire tax-foreclosed properties, clear title, hold property tax-exempt, sell properties flexibly, and generate revenue. Priority 2: Facilitate Community Resiliency Through Vacant Land Reclamation Vacant land (i.e.,

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

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). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. Davis, John E. Decker, Andrew.

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Reflection on public service leadership in the new year

Partnership for Public Service

I had an opportunity to do just that and recall the recent 2022 Government Changemakers Summit , one of the premier leadership development and policy convenings. These include stewardship of public trust, commitment to public good, becoming self-aware, engaging others, leading change and achieving results.

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Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy in Law and Policy

Center for Community Progress

Rural localities often work hard to attract development by limiting land-use controls to accommodate developers and make otherwise unattractive land as cheap as possible. In most states, land banks also require enabling state legislation to be created.

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