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). The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year. Speak with a unified voice.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 12, 2023

35 percent of respondents reported their land banks are currently engaged in vacant lot stewardship and 25 percent are planning vacant lot stewardship projects within the next three years (Figure 3). Land bank funding mechanisms vary widely by state and local legislation.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

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. The state auditor’s new understanding of this much-needed reform allowed Bennet and her colleagues to move forward authoring new property tax sale legislation.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

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. Many land banks take on the responsibility of being educator, convener, and planner.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy. AWS continually monitors the evolving privacy regulatory and legislative landscape to identify changes and determine what tools our customers might need to meet their compliance needs.

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