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Congress Resolves Threat of a Government Shutdown with Mixed Outcomes for Local Government Priorities

NLC (National League of Cities)

Six months into the new Fiscal Year and following four continuing resolutions to keep the government running beyond the October 1st start of Fiscal Year 2024, Congress has approved all twelve annual spending bills, which have been signed into law.

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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. TB: Currently no local land bank in West Virginia has a dedicated full-time staff. CP: You played a key role in advocating for West Virginia’s land bank-enabling legislation.

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Celebrating Legislative Wins to Combat Vacancy in Missouri and Alabama 

Center for Community Progress

Effective legislation is a vital piece of equipping state and local governments to effectively address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties (VAD). This year, legislative sessions in Missouri and Alabama saw big wins to advance community revitalization. Missouri (HB 2062) In Missouri, the St.

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Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy in Law and Policy

Center for Community Progress

Eisenberg , associate professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law, discusses the unique challenges and approaches to addressing vacancy in rural communities. Vacant properties are, by and large, a local government issue, and urban and rural local governments are fundamentally different in size.

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Emergency Home Repair Loans: Local Government as Financial Bridge

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

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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What is a land bank?

Center for Community Progress

State laws gives land banks their unique powers. Land banking programs, on the other hand, exist in states that don’t have state-enabling legislation, which limits their powers and utility. Community priorities and state laws determine what land banks can do with properties. The post What is a land bank?

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Decker, Andrew.

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