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Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Center for Community Progress

According to the National Land Bank Networks 2023 State of Land Banking Survey, vacant lots account for 86 percent of all land bank properties and half of all survey respondents listed vacant land stewardship as one of their top priorities. the group called out community, stewardship, legacy, values, collaboration.

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What Policymakers Need to Know About New and Evolving Publicly-Driven Housing Development Models in the U.S.

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local governments are exploring ways to take a more direct role in financing, preserving, and developing housing to address the nation’s housing shortage with an array of public development models, according to a new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center and its Housing Solutions Lab.

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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

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. We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC).

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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector Blog

Lire cet article en Français The potential of open data to transform governance and public services is immense, but realizing this potential requires overcoming common obstacles. Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy.

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State of Land Banking: 2023 Survey Highlights 

Center for Community Progress

80 percent of respondents are public authorities, though land banks vary in shape and size from divisions of government to private nonprofit entities. 81 percent of land banks consider supporting the creation of affordable housing a top priority. 50 percent of land banks consider addressing more vacant lots a top priority.

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Land Banks and Community Land Trusts: Emerging Partners for a Resilient and Equitable Recovery

Center for Community Progress

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, many communities are seeing an increase in higher-wage families purchasing new homes, while others facean increase in evictions and foreclosures and a growing deficit of quality affordable housing for vulnerable residents. Black communities are disproportionately affected by this crisis.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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