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Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

According to the National Land Bank Networks 2023 State of Land Banking Survey, vacant lots account for 86 percent of all land bank properties and half of all survey respondents listed vacant land stewardship as one of their top priorities. the group called out community, stewardship, legacy, values, collaboration.

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Using the cloud to advance collaborative water stewardship

AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

State and local governments, academia, associations, and consultancies from across Canada have leveraged the DataStream platform as an input to regional and national-scale water assessments to inform research, decision making, and design of water monitoring programs. Learn more about AWS Water Stewardship.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC). TB: Currently no local land bank in West Virginia has a dedicated full-time staff. Soon we’ll also be offering additional legal support for land banks of local governments that do not have a fulltime city attorney.

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To Prevent Illegal Dumping, You Have to Know the Scale of the Problem

Center for Community Progress

MARCH 3, 2025

Their contributions supplement local government capacity and fosters neighborhood pride. Engage local groups to collect data. Involving residents and community groups already involved in vacant land stewardship helps lower costs and strengthens neighborhood engagement. Be transparent about the purpose of the inventory.

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State of Land Banking: 2023 Survey Highlights

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). 42 percent of land banks consider conducting more rehabilitations a top priority.

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The Problem with Calling Neighborhoods with Vacant Properties “Blighted”

Center for Community Progress

MARCH 30, 2023

Strategies like land banks , strategic code enforcement , delinquent property tax enforcement , vacant land stewardship , and creative placemaking.) These terms are more accurate and they acknowledge strategies that equitably, efficiently, and effectively get those properties back to productive, community-aligned uses.

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Flooding in Delaware

First State Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This interview was recorded on October 21, 2020. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0 This interview was recorded on October 21, 2020.

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Vacant Land is More Than a Single Lot—it’s a System.

Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Example: Old North Rain Garden Vacant Land and Economic Systems Vacant land stewardship interacts with economic systems in the community, providing spaces for income generation, like urban farms; economic exchange, like farmers’ markets; and for new construction, like homes and businesses. appeared first on Center for Community Progress.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

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. Housing Studies 34, no.

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What Policymakers Need to Know About New and Evolving Publicly-Driven Housing Development Models in the U.S.

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

OCTOBER 3, 2024

State and local governments are exploring ways to take a more direct role in financing, preserving, and developing housing to address the nation’s housing shortage with an array of public development models, according to a new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center and its Housing Solutions Lab.

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How Vacant and Abandoned Buildings Affect the Community

Center for Community Progress

MARCH 24, 2023

How Vacant and Abandoned Buildings Harm Public Finances Municipal revenue : Property taxes are typically the largest source of revenue for local governments. For example, the total costs of distressed vacant properties in Atlanta, Georgia, range from $55 million to $153 million in lost property values. million annually.

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Islands innovating to future-proof water resources

AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2023

The brief describes six key activities for islands to consider to take advantage of this unique opportunity for innovative development.

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CPBB Teams with Toledo Regional Chamber to Bring Priority Based Budgeting to the City of Toledo, Ohio

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AUGUST 30, 2016

At the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) , we're constantly impressed and amazed at just how innovative local government communities can be. The core CPBB concepts of Fiscal Health and Wellness through Priority Based Budgeting are truly inspiring a new wave of municipal fiscal stewardship.

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Explaining the Cycle of Systemic Vacancy

Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 24, 2023

As property values decline, so do property taxes, which means less tax revenue available for local governments to use for vital public services like schools and community parks. However, there is hope for state and local governments looking to revitalize their communities.

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The HVAC Ventilation Dilemma: How to Solve for Wildfire Smoke

American City & Country

AUGUST 26, 2024

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Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy in Law and Policy

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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OCTOBER 20, 2021

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How to Prevent and Reduce Illegal Dumping

Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A local government might clean up a dumping site only to get a call a few weeks later about more trash and debris in the same place. Check out our vacant land projects database for examples of vacant land stewardship and reuse. Dealing with illegal dumping is an expensive and tedious cycle.

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Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Using the cloud to advance collaborative water stewardship

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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

To Prevent Illegal Dumping, You Have to Know the Scale of the Problem

State of Land Banking: 2023 Survey Highlights

The Problem with Calling Neighborhoods with Vacant Properties “Blighted”

Flooding in Delaware

Vacant Land is More Than a Single Lot—it’s a System.

Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

What Policymakers Need to Know About New and Evolving Publicly-Driven Housing Development Models in the U.S.

How Vacant and Abandoned Buildings Affect the Community

Islands innovating to future-proof water resources

CPBB Teams with Toledo Regional Chamber to Bring Priority Based Budgeting to the City of Toledo, Ohio

Explaining the Cycle of Systemic Vacancy

The HVAC Ventilation Dilemma: How to Solve for Wildfire Smoke

Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy in Law and Policy

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How to Prevent and Reduce Illegal Dumping

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