What if the next big thing in blight elimination is to think small? Staff at the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC) think that just might be the…
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In the wake of continued police violence in communities of color across the nation, we have witnessed the strengthening of movements against brutality. With its origins in…
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We are in an unprecedented situation, and our concerns first and foremost should be about keeping people safe and, to the extent that it is the safest…
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States, Tribes, counties, and municipalities around the country have been hard at work determining how to use their allocations from the American Rescue Plan Act’s $350 billion State and Local Fiscal…
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This is an excerpt of Chapter 8 of Tackling Vacancy and Abandonment: Strategies and Impacts After the Great Recession, jointly produced by the Center for Community Progress,…
Read More »What is a land bank? How are land banks created? How many land banks are operating throughout the country? How does land banking work? Aren’t land banks…
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Gentrification is the subject of extensive, often intense, discussion. This report focuses the conversation toward legacy cities, assessing potential gentrification alongside parallel neighborhood decline, using Milwaukee as an example.
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Community Progress produced this report following a technical assistance engagement with Spokane, Washington to explore whether a land bank is the right tool to turn vacant property inventory into affordable housing.
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New Director Launches Survey and Interviews to Power New Funding Advocacy and Online Education for Fighting Vacancy Washington, D.C. – March 9, 2021 – The Center for…
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Dr. Kendi and Mayor Lightfoot join Tonika Lewis Johnson and national philanthropic leaders as keynotes at national community development conference WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 18, 2022 –…
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