The Center For Community Progress Blog

With legislation on land banks, code enforcement, and other means of grappling with foreclosures and abandoned property in play in a half-dozen states, we want to make certain that the successes and challenges that advocates are finding can be shared. What follows is a highly informative piece by Jaimye Bartak, who has been working with…

Once again demonstrating its leadership in urban land reform, the state of Georgia stands ready to consider modernizing and strengthening the land bank statutes already in place. While land banks are already being used by communities around the state to help deal with vacant, abandoned and tax-delinquent properties, a new piece of legislation, Senate Bill…