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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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 12, 2023

81 percent of land banks consider supporting the creation of affordable housing a top priority. Increasingly, land banks have been called on to respond to growing housing affordability needs. As was reported in 2021, residents and local institutions are still the most frequent recipients of land bank properties.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

Land banking programs, on the other hand, exist in states that don’t have state-enabling legislation, which limits their powers and utility. A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.” The post What is a land bank?

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 24, 2024

We get a great deal of information from the Internet for our work, and there’s little question that the easy access to tons of reports, studies, surveys, legislation, audits, budgets, meeting minutes, essays, graphs, etc., has revolutionized research and reporting on all fronts, not just state and local government.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 2, 2023

The board said I’d be buying properties that were abandoned and tax delinquent and selling them to developers to turn into affordable housing. I got my start in local government in Memphis, Tennessee, which is where I developed my love of working with my community and driving generational wealth-building.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 17, 2023

One facet of the legislation stipulated that Michigan land banks must be created by intergovernmental collaboration between a county and the state land bank. In the 20 years since this legislation, Michigan has formed 48 county land banks, one city land bank (DLBA), and the state land bank, which serves the remaining 35 counties.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

Local governments may not create their own custom exemptions; they all need to play by the uniform, statewide rules created by the General Assembly. Here is the list of exemptions that are most likely to be relevant to a local government’s community and economic development activities. Okay, enough background.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Since 2003 the city has been growing--even with the recent hiccup of the recession + a slowing and braking on urban growth because of some shrinkage of the activity of federal government, especially in terms of leased office space and personnel. Our house is detached, and five miles from Downtown (but 3/4 mile from a Metrorail station).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

Despite all Kenney’s talk about respecting the city’s treasures, we saw the commission’s board cut a deal with developer Leo Addimando in 2020 to significantly modify International House on the very day it placed the award-winning student dormitory in West Philadelphia on the city’s historic register.

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GovLoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Government is under pressure to update its legacy technology systems. Modernization is crucial for agencies to stay agile, secure, and responsive to evolving needs,” said Francisco Ramirez, Chief Architect of State and Local Government at Red Hat. Getting there, however, has often proven problematic.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 3, 2023

For more details about local government grant seeking, check out this blog post. But as I moved into work with nonprofits, I realized that outside of local governments, many organizations do not take advantage of the assistance provided by their elected officials. They can help with support letters.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

When Congress passes and the President signs major legislation, federal agencies must translate it into practical action to ensure its goals are realized. 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. The “historic property” exclusion in G.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

This is another side of the argument in " The real lesson from Flint Michigan is about municipal finance " (2016) in how the funding systems for local governments were created when cities were growing and successful, and we don't have new funding systems focused on the reality of current conditions.

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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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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In November 2021, the United States House of Representatives and Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal of new federal investment in America’s infrastructure. The Legislation Within the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal. The Legislation Within the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Before I came to Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an executive government advisor, I spent years as a local government chief information officer (CIO). Comprehensive policies, processes, and in some cases legislation must be put in place to make sure it is protected.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

I write that for the most part, DC's legislators have it pretty good. But the fact is that Congress does have the final authority on approving local legislation, even though the DC Home Rule Act of 1973 pretty much created local control of local governance.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 25, 2023

The 11 billion in the title referred to the total dollars spent on economic development in New York’s state and local governments – a number that the report indicates “likely will increase more in the coming years, potentially exceeding $13 billion in 2025.” Indeed, the federal government has been pushing for evidence.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While the response to Hurricane Helene continues, local governments are looking ahead to the long road to recovery. This post describes the legal authority and practical considerations for local governments seeking to serve in the role of financial bridge. Detailed legal analysis of each point follows after the summary.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Photograph: David Rowe/Alamy Under Conservative control of the UK from 2010-2024, local governments were severely crushed by actions of the central government, austerity and other cuts, and further mandates meant that local governments faced up to a 2/3 drop in revenues.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Republicans have a supermajority in the Legislature and zero compunction against preemption of local governance, so it's a slam dunk the law will pass. Disclosure : Sugar House Park was in the process of working with City DOT to convert the right most lane of 2100 South abutting the park with an extended sidewalk and bike lane.

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