Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Once property taxes are considered delinquent, local governments typically focus on providing notice of delinquency and attempting to collect the unpaid amounts from the owner. After providing notice to the property owner of delinquency, many local governments have the power, granted in state law, to foreclose on unpaid property taxes.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Land banks are public entities with the unique authority under state law to acquire, manage, and transform problem properties, prioritizing community goals over profit. 31 of The Road Ahead ) 2. The post Why Land Banks Matter appeared first on Center for Community Progress.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 26, 2024

You find a local home repair program and help your parents fill out an application, only to find out that they do not qualify because they do not have legal ownership—or title —to the house. The owner’s grandson, who grew up and lived in the house with his grandmother, wanted to buy the property to keep it in his family.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Social Security cards, birth certificates, and proof of disability are crucial for accessing services and applying for housing. Law enforcement knew the name of the suspect and this individual matched a description but did not have any identification. Reach out to the AWS Public Sector team.

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Government Technology Insider

JUNE 13, 2024

State and local government agencies quickly have begun to include artificial intelligence (AI) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in IT modernization plans. However, complying with these laws is complex. Don’t go it alone AI implementation is complex, and handling the work in-house can be daunting.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 22, 2024

To address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties, local governments must first identify what types of VAD properties exist in the community. When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is passed to family members legally entitled to it.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. TB: Currently no local land bank in West Virginia has a dedicated full-time staff.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 25, 2021

Code enforcement is a vital piece of effective housing policy, playing a role in both residents’ health and safety and in the cost of providing and maintaining housing. Housing and building codes vary in their relative focus on conditions at the individual unit or neighborhood level. Proactive and Reactive Enforcement.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

State laws gives land banks their unique powers. A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.” Community priorities and state laws determine what land banks can do with properties. The post What is a land bank?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Canton’s public safety, traffic management, parks and recreations, libraries, community centers, city hall, and housing authority have all benefited from a unique user experience. Read more about how state and local governments use AWS to power justice and public safety solutions at the AWS Cloud for Justice and Public Safety hub.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 18, 2023

What does this have to do with winning grants under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)? Quite a bit. In a significant change in federal grant-making opportunities and requirements, grant seekers for BIL funding must prove that at least 40% of their projects benefit underserved communities.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 15, 2025

Housing and building code enforcement is one of local governments most important tools to stabilize and strengthen neighborhoods. It also forms the foundation of other strategies to address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties, including land banking.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 26, 2023

Indeed, most local governments report that almost all owners pay their property taxes on time. The Supreme Court ruled that by allowing the County to keep the surplus from the property sale, Minnesota law violates the “takings clause” of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

So a local preservation law is needed, to be able to counter such threats. They pass a law and property owners, not the city, have to pay for it. But most media coverage of preservation never covers this. So I was surprised to see it recognized in a recent article. At the same time, for a city, preservation is pretty cheap.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 29, 2024

You’ll learn about new laws and issues affecting vacant property. Your community is facing different challenges in 2024 than it was in 2007, and even in 2022. The room rate ends on September 16, 2024 or when the room block sells out. The sessions at RVP reflect that! Our conference agenda covers timely, pressing topics.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 28, 2024

When you live next door to a long-abandoned house or down the street from a vacant lot that’s a magnet for illegal dumping , it’s easy to feel powerless to do anything about it. As a result of this long-term decline, local governments in places grappling with systemic vacancy don’t have resources proportional to the scale of the problem.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

North Carolina property tax law, nicknamed the Machinery Act, contains many dozens of full or partial exemptions for property as diverse as free drug samples, uranium 233, and Loyal Order of the Moose clubhouses. Housing-Related Exemptions Builders inventory ( G.S. Low- & moderate-income housing ( G.S.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 6, 2024

But when property conditions harm its occupants, or the property’s deterioration threatens the safety of neighbors or the stability of the neighborhood, local governments need tools to step in. What can local government do to address vacant and “blighted” properties? What is code enforcement?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Such was the case for the 911 system in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, an agency that dispatches for 21 public safety agencies including law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical services, and averages over 325 calls for service per day. How data-driven technology helps law enforcement agencies improve constituent outcomes.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health held last fall, a commitment was made to invest in local community and economic development to increase access to food (see page 12 of the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition and Health presented at the Conference).

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’ve probably seen an abandoned house or two in your neighborhood. These empty structures and lots remain for years, deteriorating in condition, weakening the housing market, driving residents out of the neighborhood, and fueling more vacancy. But some places have many vacant and abandoned properties.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 17, 2023

Land banks in Michigan are a flexible tool with unique powers granted to them in state law to return vacant properties to productive use as new homes, businesses, or greenspace through demolition, rehabilitation, and maintenance.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

Our work to date The Partnership for Public Service has developed resources – detailed below – to help leaders implement these laws for maximum impact. Case studies We have published seven micro case studies that examine how federal, state and local government agencies work to implement these laws.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

As I’ve written before , both our state constitution and the Machinery Act (the collection of state statutes that govern property taxes) require that all local governments across North Carolina play by the same property tax rules. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Center for Community Progress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As executive administrator for the Louisville Metro Government’s (LMG) Codes and Regulations department, Crowe took pride in the fact that his department treated all properties with housing and building code violations the same, regardless of property owner, type, or neighborhood. The policy’s intent was to ensure fairness.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

To better understand why it’s so difficult to address vacant properties, let’s examine a hypothetical house that exemplifies the type of problem property endemic throughout Raton and New Mexico. Raton could foreclose on the municipal liens associated with 123 Raton Street under existing New Mexico law.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. Uncleared sidewalks from 1300 East to Sugar House Park. Levels of Service at the scale of an individual park is an issue with Sugar House Park. Technically.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

The plan focused on action steps and funding approaches that could be taken by local government entities and partners. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s HOME program, professional code enforcement staff, and powers of eminent domain through its Redevelopment Authority.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

State and local governments, as well as finance and insurance, are also potential employers. A few of the current available options include with non-profits, government organizations, and even law. Housing Specialist. Want to get people into houses but don’t want to work for a bank? Internship Opportunities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I just learned that another place where I lived will be demolished for a new dormitory (" Saying goodbye to Ann Arbor's Marshall Court: Houses to be demolished for new dorm ," Ann Arbor News ). And the GMU campus at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which has the policy and law schools, and other programs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article was updated with new findings as of October 2024 from WRI’s Electric School Bus Data Dashboard, which is updated monthly and contains the most recent data on electric school bus adoption. Previous versions of this article are.

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The City Fix

JULY 30, 2024

When you hear “infrastructure,” most people naturally think of the physical built environment — roads, bridges, buildings. There’s a lot less emphasis on other kinds of infrastructure that are equally as important, like civic infrastructure. Civic infrastructure encompasses a broad.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. MH’s supporters consider it naturally low-cost due to the efficiency of factory production, rather than via government subsidy.

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zencity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Local government officials have just encountered one of the biggest public health emergencies of their careers. Over the course of 2022, the Zencity team attended nearly 70 government conferences across 22 states. Here are our top picks for the best 2023 local government conferences to attend: 1.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.

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