Reclaiming Vacant Properties 2024 Conference | Center for Community Progress
Join us in St. Louis on October 9-11 for the only national conference about tackling blighted properties.| Center for Community Progress
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Join us in St. Louis on October 9-11 for the only national conference about tackling blighted properties.| Center for Community Progress
Register for the only national conference dedicated to helping land bank leaders revitalize vacant and blighted properties!| Center for Community Progress
Blight is a shorthand term many people use to refer to properties they perceive as problematic in some way.| Center for Community Progress
Find out how land banks work and how they can support your goals around developing housing and neighborhood revitalization.| Center for Community Progress
Community Progress the leading nonprofit dedicated to helping state and local governments turn vacant properties into vibrant places.| Center for Community Progress
Vacant lot stewardship means repurposing vacant land in service to community needs, priorities, and goals. Learn more and see examples.| Center for Community Progress
Cities spend millions each year cleaning up illegal dumping. What if they tried to make vacant lots less appealing to dumping in the first place?| Center for Community Progress
The National Land Bank Network (NLBN) at the Center for Community Progress connects land bank leaders to the tools, networks, and resources they need to return vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties to productive use. As the first membership-based community of practice for the field of land banking, NLBN supports the over 300 land banks and…| Center for Community Progress
Learn more about our Land Bank Incubator Scholarship Program in which communities can apply to receive free community revitalization consulting and technical assistance.| Center for Community Progress
Land banks can create a more effective, efficient, and equitable system to return problem properties to productive use according to community goals.| Center for Community Progress
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Brownfield redevelopment reclaims the potential of underutilized properties, improves a neighborhood’s health and wellbeing, and can spark community revitalization. The post The Basics of Brownfield Redevelopment: Finding and Assessing Brownfields appeared first on Center for Community Progress.| Center for Community Progress
Ideas for Opportunity Zones 2.0 to leverage existing vacant properties in distressed communities, with land bank support. The post How Opportunity Zones 2.0 Can Leverage Existing Vacant Property Inventories appeared first on Center for Community Progress.| Center for Community Progress
A land bank is a public entity with unique powers to put vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties back to productive use according to community goals. The post What is a Land Bank? appeared first on Center for Community Progress.| Center for Community Progress
Brownfield properties, often referred to as “brownfields,” are properties where the presence or potential presence of hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant makes redevelopment challenging and costly. The post What is a Brownfield? appeared first on Center for Community Progress.| Center for Community Progress
NHIA would create a new federal tax credit to support construction or rehabilitation of single-family homes in distressed communities.| Center for Community Progress
Find a land bank near you and make sure you understand what makes them different from traditional real estate sellers. The post How to Buy Property From a Land Bank appeared first on Center for Community Progress.| Center for Community Progress
How to conduct a neighborhood survey to assess the scale of illegal dumping and prioritize city resources for cleanup and prevention.| Center for Community Progress
Five examples of creative approaches land banks have taken to addressing vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.| Center for Community Progress
How the Cuyahoga Land Bank and a community activist worked together to transform a block one property at a time.| Center for Community Progress
Grassroots community leaders from Lafayette, Memphis, and Rochester share their stories and motivations for community revitalization.| Center for Community Progress
Sponsors of the Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference share what they see as the role of philanthropy in revitalizing communities.| Center for Community Progress
Missouri's HB 2062 and Alabama's SB 9 will help both states address blighted properties better.| Center for Community Progress
It is with deep sorrow that we mourn the passing of Gus Frangos, Founder and President of the Cuyahoga Land Bank.| Center for Community Progress
When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, the lack of a clear plan of a succession can set properties on the path to deterioration and abandonment.| Center for Community Progress
Blighted properties harm public health, individual wealth, and public finances. The cost of doing nothing about them is significant.| Center for Community Progress
