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).

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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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 17, 2022

Vacant properties are, by and large, a local government issue, and urban and rural local governments are fundamentally different in size. In addition to smaller local government capacities, the economics of rural land and property markets are different from urban ones.

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