Creative Placemaking: New Tools for Empowering Community-Led Revitalization
These examples of creative placemaking projects can inspire you to transform vacant land in your neighborhood.
Read MoreThe Cost of a 2×4 is What?! Overview of Lumber Costs and the Opportunity for Deconstruction
Using salvaged lumber could be an alternative to the record-high cost of lumber. Deconstruction of vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties could be a cost effective and eco-friendly alternative.
Read MoreLand Banks in America: Today’s Movement and What We’ve Learned
Join this webinar to learn more about the new National Land Bank Network from the Center for Community Progress.
Read MoreCommunity Leadership: Moving from Grassroots to Scalable Community Change
Learn how changemakers across the US, from concerned moms to nonprofit leaders, are converting the vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties next door into community resources.
Read MoreAfter the COVID-19 Emergency: What’s Next for Middle Neighborhoods?
This webinar examines challenges and opportunities for middle neighborhoods after the pandemic.
Read MoreBringing Nature to Communities: The Role of Land Conservancies in Addressing Vacant Properties
How the Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy shifted from focusing primarily on conserving rural natural spaces to bringing the natural world to urban spaces.
Read MoreMyth Busting: Shared Equity Homeownership in Weak Market Cities
Shared-equity homeownership, a model of creating and preserving resale-restricted homeownership opportunities for low-income households, can help any city advance equity and inclusion.
Read MoreLISC Safety and Justice: Collaborative Approaches for Safe Places
LISC Safety and Justice will present on their model of collaborative problems solving to address neighborhood crime and safety challenges.
Read MorePlanting Refuge: Violence Prevention Through Vacant Property Greening
This webinar features the Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center’s research on vacant properties and crime and the effect of greening to prevent violence.
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