Local Analysis
Topic
Geography
A Decision-Making Roadmap
The City of South Bend, Indiana engaged Community Progress to assess the feasibility of a land bank and provide a road map of critical decision points. This report identifies what keeps vacant lots and buildings stuck in a cycle of decline, and how a land bank might help.
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A Community Progress Report for Raton, New Mexico
This report outlines state and local policy and practice recommendations to tackle vacant and abandoned properties in Raton, NM.
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Transforming Vacant Properties in Pennsylvania
Strategic plan prepared for the Tri-COG Land Bank (TCLB) by the Community Progress to assist TCLB in preparing a for its future achieving greater impact creating more equitable communities.
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Replicating Detroit's Make it Home Program
Analyzing cities that have the potential to implement a program similar to Detroit’s Make it Home, transitioning tenants to homeowners.
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Improving Neighborhoods by Repurposing Vacant Lots
This one-page brief explains what you need to know about why taking care of vacant lots can improve Michigan neighborhoods.
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A Brief Primer
This one-page explainer provides an overview of land banks and their impact in Michigan.
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Strategies and Impacts after the Great Recession
Ten years on from the Great Recession, we take stock of lessons learned from that crisis and how they might be applied to future challenges. This edited volume, jointly produced by Community Progress and the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Cleveland, contains twelve articles by national experts in the field of neighborhood revitalization.
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Preliminary Analysis of Land Banking and other tools to Address Vacant and Abandoned Properties and Create a Pipeline for Affordable Housing
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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A Community Progress Technical Assistance Report
Community Progress produced this report following a technical assistance engagement with Toledo, Ohio to assess the City’s approach to code enforcement.
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A Flexible Action Plan for the Next Three Years
Community Progress provided technical support in the development of this action plan for the Blight Authority of Memphis, to help BAM play a meaningful role in the local fight against vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read More...A Decision-Making Roadmap
The City of South Bend, Indiana engaged Community Progress to assess the feasibility of a land bank and provide a road map of critical decision points. This report identifies what keeps vacant lots and buildings stuck in a cycle of decline, and how a land bank might help.
Read More...A Community Progress Report for Raton, New Mexico
This report outlines state and local policy and practice recommendations to tackle vacant and abandoned properties in Raton, NM.
Read More...Transforming Vacant Properties in Pennsylvania
Strategic plan prepared for the Tri-COG Land Bank (TCLB) by the Community Progress to assist TCLB in preparing a for its future achieving greater impact creating more equitable communities.
Read More...Replicating Detroit's Make it Home Program
Analyzing cities that have the potential to implement a program similar to Detroit’s Make it Home, transitioning tenants to homeowners.
Read More...Improving Neighborhoods by Repurposing Vacant Lots
This one-page brief explains what you need to know about why taking care of vacant lots can improve Michigan neighborhoods.
Read More...A Brief Primer
This one-page explainer provides an overview of land banks and their impact in Michigan.
Read More...Strategies and Impacts after the Great Recession
Ten years on from the Great Recession, we take stock of lessons learned from that crisis and how they might be applied to future challenges. This edited volume, jointly produced by Community Progress and the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Cleveland, contains twelve articles by national experts in the field of neighborhood revitalization.
Read More...Preliminary Analysis of Land Banking and other tools to Address Vacant and Abandoned Properties and Create a Pipeline for Affordable Housing
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.
Read More...A Community Progress Technical Assistance Report
Community Progress produced this report following a technical assistance engagement with Toledo, Ohio to assess the City’s approach to code enforcement.
Read More...A Flexible Action Plan for the Next Three Years
Community Progress provided technical support in the development of this action plan for the Blight Authority of Memphis, to help BAM play a meaningful role in the local fight against vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read More...