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Learn strategies to address vacant and deteriorated neighborhood-serving commercial corridors.
Read More »Join us in Pittsburgh for the only national conference on dedicated to tackling vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read More »This training will cover key next steps following the passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, identify where and how land banks can effectively engage, and discuss strategies for local implementation.
Read More »Land banks often face significant challenges when returning small, irregular, or otherwise atypical parcels to productive use. However, technical and design assistance can help overcome these barriers by providing replicable predevelopment and disposition strategies that shift development risks upstream of property transfer. Houston Land Bank’s Finding Home Initiative is a…
Read More »Learn about the role land banks can play in remediation and reuse, how to successfully procure and deploy brownfields funding, and the positive community impact land banks have when they can engage in this work.
Read More »Explore the dynamics behind recent shifts in urban housing markets and what they mean for community development practitioners.
Read More »Watch the recording here » As housing markets recover and boom, not every neighborhood sees equal growth. Understanding the different submarkets within your city is critical to implementing the right vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated property strategies.  This webinar will cover how to use data you are likely already collecting to…
Read More »How many vacant properties are in your community? Where are they? What condition are they in? If you don’t have the answers—or don’t know how to use that data when you have it—you’re not alone.   This webinar will highlight how communities can capture a variety of property condition information, map…
Read More »Predictable, sufficient funding is a persistent challenge for land banks. As we anticipate shifts in federal support and agency staffing that may affect state and local budgets, establishing sustainable financial mechanisms to support land banks is more critical than ever. In this training, land bank leaders from Ohio and Michigan…
Read More »Vacant properties remain a significant source of harm to neighborhoods, despite headlines on the housing shortage and booming residential markets.Yet over the past five years, the forces shaping local efforts to address vacancy—including real estate markets, court rulings, and public funding—have shifted dramatically. To continue working effectively, it is critical…
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