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In the Land Bank DEI Learning Cohort, eight land banks learned how to disrupt racial injustice to better serve their communities.
Read More »A snapshot of Raton, New Mexico and how the city can tackle vacant and abandoned properties.
Read More »Learn about creative placemaking projects by residents of Birmingham, Alabama; Reading, Pennsylvania; and Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Read More »For Kat Guillaume-Delemar, community revitalization is a deeply personal journey.
Read More »How the Cuyahoga Land Bank and a community activist worked together to transform a block one property at a time.
Read More »Systemic vacancy is the community experience of widespread property vacancy caused by the combined actions of people, policies, and processes.
Read More »In 2023, Michigan land banks mark two important milestones: 20 years since the passage of Michigan’s Land Bank Fast Track Act and incorporation of the 50th land bank in the state.
Read More »Conceptualizing vacant land as a system makes it possible to identify where strategic interventions can push the system toward different, more desirable outcomes.
Read More »Community leaders in Braddock, North Braddock, and East Pittsburgh are creatively reactivating vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read More »The key lesson from this year’s VAD Academy: systemic racism is a root cause of vacant, abandoned, deteriorated properties.
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