Posts by Charles Linton
Answering Big Questions Following Tyler v. Hennepin County
Answering the most common and important questions we’ve heard about property tax foreclosure in the wake of Tyler v. Hennepin County.
Read MoreARPA SLFRF Update: Interim Final Rule Expands Eligible Uses
The ARPA SLFRF expanded eligible uses allow funds to be deployed to help address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties in new ways.
Read MoreWhat is a tax lien sale and why is it a bad way of dealing with vacant properties?
Tax lien sales are one way that cities and counties try to recoup some of the public dollars they’ve spent maintaining properties abandoned by private owners. But tax lien sales rarely fix the problem, nor lead to a vacant property being returned to productive use.
Read MoreHelping Land Banks Advance Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In the Land Bank DEI Learning Cohort, eight land banks learned how to disrupt racial injustice to better serve their communities.
Read MoreChallenges—and Opportunities—to Addressing Vacant Properties in Raton, New Mexico
A snapshot of Raton, New Mexico and how the city can tackle vacant and abandoned properties.
Read MoreLooking Back at the 2020-21 Community Revitalization Fellowship: Creative Placemaking by Community Leaders from Three Cities
Learn about creative placemaking projects by residents of Birmingham, Alabama; Reading, Pennsylvania; and Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Read MoreVacant Land is More Than a Single Lot—it’s a System.
Conceptualizing vacant land as a system makes it possible to identify where strategic interventions can push the system toward different, more desirable outcomes.
Read MoreLessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties
The key lesson from this year’s VAD Academy: systemic racism is a root cause of vacant, abandoned, deteriorated properties.
Read MoreCreación de espacios creativos en Loíza (Puerto Rico)
A principios de marzo, los cohortes de la Beca de Revitalización Comunitaria (CRF) 2022-23 viajaron a Loíza, Puerto Rico, para su segundo intercambio de aprendizaje. Estos intercambios de aprendizaje, que incluyeron formación técnica y entrenamiento de liderazgo, son oportunidades para que los becarios aprendan de cada uno y de sus comunidades y para visitar proyectos…
Read MoreCreative Placemaking in Loíza, Puerto Rico
As part of the Community Revitalization Fellowship, fellows from Loíza, Puerto Rico shared the creative placemaking working happening in their community.
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