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Land banks are well-positioned to engage in brownfield redevelopment. As public entities with unique powers to address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties, land banks can help communities return these properties to productive use in alignment with community goals. A growing number of communities across the country are seeing land banks…
Read More »Examples of how philanthropic partnerships have helped land banks launch new programs to revitalize communities.
Read More »Examples of how land banks are transforming vacant land into climate resilience assets through flood mitigation, greening, and partnerships.
Read More »The NLBN Summit is your chance to better understand how land banks work and how they can support your goals around developing housing, reusing vacant land, and helping neighborhoods bounce back from economic decline.
Read More »Ideas for Opportunity Zones 2.0 to leverage existing vacant properties in distressed communities, with land bank support.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Find a land bank near you and make sure you understand what makes them different from traditional real estate sellers.
Read More »Five examples of creative approaches land banks have taken to addressing vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read More »Learn what a land bank is, how it works, how to buy vacant property from a land bank, and if any land banks serve your community.
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