Publications
Property Tax System
How to Advance Community Goals Through Land Banking and Other Tools
This brief is a product of the New Jersey Land Bank Launch Initiative. The competition for land (with and without structures) is being felt acutely across the Garden State. Since the pandemic, many New Jersey communities have seen markets flip almost overnight, with an influx of new residents who had…
Read More »Updated Analysis and Policy Reform Options
Updated analysis for 2024 about the implications of Tyler v. Hennepin County on communities’ ability to tackle vacancy properties.
Read More »How Tangled Title Can Lead to Property Vacancy, Abandonment, and Deterioration
This factsheet explains why it’s important to deal with heirs’ property in order to prevent future vacancy and abandonment.
Read More »Analysis and Policy Reform Options for State and Local Governments
What state and local government leaders need to know to reform their property tax foreclosure systems after Tyler v. Hennepin County.
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 »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 »How to Reduce Vacancy, Advance Racial Equity, and Improve Public Services
This publication lays a general foundation for understanding the property tax system, but specifically focuses on ways to reform the delinquent property tax enforcement process for vacant properties—those properties that pose the greatest harm to a community.
Read More »A One-Page Brief
This one-page explainer provides an overview of what it would cost to tackle all of Michigan’s vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read More »A Brief Primer
This brief explains how equitable, efficient, and effective property tax enforcement can be powerful tool in interrupting the cycle of neighborhood decline.
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.
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