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). The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year. Photo courtesy of 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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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks. After New York passed this landmark land bank-enabling legislation, I worked with County and local officials to help establish the Broome County Land Bank in 2012, one of the first land banks in the state. I wondered.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

In an example that West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett shared, property tax sale process reform efforts in West Virginia had stalled. The state auditor’s new understanding of this much-needed reform allowed Bennet and her colleagues to move forward authoring new property tax sale legislation.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

They are created pursuant to state-enabling legislation which gives them unique powers like the ability to cost-effectively acquire tax-foreclosed properties, clear title, hold property tax-exempt, sell properties flexibly, and generate revenue. Click here to learn more about our services and approach.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). Community Land Trusts and State Legislation: A Model Act to Enable This Affordable Housing Tool.” In The Community Land Trust Reader , edited by John Emmeus Davis, 259-268. Decker, Andrew. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 12, 2023

These include stewardship of public trust, commitment to public good, becoming self-aware, engaging others, leading change and achieving results. At the Partnership, we bolster how agencies interact with customers by issuing data-driven recommendations, convening customer experience experts and championing legislative reform.

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