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What the ROAD to Housing Act contains relating to community revitalization and vacant property reuse.
Read More »What communities dealing with property vacancy, abandonment, and tax delinquency should expect following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Pung.
Read More »Guidance for land banks on emerging housing legislation moving through Congress.
Read More »Ideas for Opportunity Zones 2.0 to leverage existing vacant properties in distressed communities, with land bank support.
Read More »NHIA would create a new federal tax credit to support construction or rehabilitation of single-family homes in distressed communities.
Read More »Revisions to the 203(k) Rehabilitation Mortgage Insurance Program aim to make it more accessible and effective and increase the number of 203(k) consultants.
Read More »The bipartisan bill is an important step in giving rural, urban, and suburban communities the tools to address “blighted” properties. The key focus of the bill is providing support to land banks, a tool many communities are adopting to support economic and neighborhood revitalization.
Read More »Blight is a shorthand term many people use to refer to properties they perceive as problematic in some way.
Read More »Learn about FHA Improvements to the 203(k) Rehab Mortgage Program and other 2023 federal programs and policies in community revitalization you might have missed.
Read More »Answering the most common and important questions we’ve heard about property tax foreclosure in the wake of Tyler v. Hennepin County.
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