| A land bank could be the answer to foreclosure crisisJulie Porter of Greater Kansas City LISC on how land banks can help address the foreclosure crisis, noting LISC’s work with the City of Kansas City and Jackson County staff to bring Community Progress to the area to help write enabling land bank legislation. | 02/16/12 |
| Foundation for Louisiana Announces Nonprofit Grants, with $35,000 for Community Progress The policy grant to Community Progress will support our efforts to develop policy and legislative initiatives to prevent property blight and abandonment, reform land acquisition practices and address land disposition throughout the state. | 12/12/11 |
| New Pittsburgh TODAY report tackles vacancy and its solutions | Nobody Home -- The Rise of VacancyPittsburgh TODAY has published a sweeping report -- 'Nobody Home: The Rise of Vacancy' -- that draws extensively on the expertise of Community Progress and our staff, CEO Dan Kildee and Kim Graziani, vice president of capacity building. Written by some of the region’s most accomplished journalists, the report investigates key issues that confront the region, as a way to heighten public awareness – and suggest solutions – for critical challenges in the metro area. | 11/10/11 |
| Municipalities turn to new powers against unkempt propertiesMunicipalities turn to new powers against unkempt properties: Community Progress president Dan Kildee talks about growing community efforts to require title holders to cover the costs of maintaining vacant properties. The effort helps stabilize property values, shore up community safety and maintain quality of life in local neighborhoods, while saving cash-strapped municipalities from shouldering property owners’ costs for basic maintenance. | 11/06/11 |
Smaller is more beautifulThe rustbelt cities of the Midwest and north-east have been in decline for decades, but it has taken decades for many of them to accept that no one was coming to save them. These cities are finally trying to come up with stabilising plans.
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| DEVELOPMENT: New York's new tool for troubled propertiesAll it takes is one derelict home or building to drag down a neighborhood. It's not just about the eyesore factor. A neglected property brings down the value of neighboring properties, is a magnet for trouble, and can discourage other owners from investing in their properties. Cities across New York have struggled with vacant commercial and residential properties and the issues that accompany them for decades. But there's a new tool to deal with the problem: the state has passed a law that lets cities or counties form land banks. | 10/05/11 |
| Land banks benefit communitiesCommunity Progress CEO Dan Kildee capped off a series of recent news articles and op ed columns in the Detroit News with this September 21 editorial on how land banks benefit communities - including their importance as a vital tool to prevent speculation, disinvestment and blight in our neighborhoods. | 09/20/11 |
| Pittsburgh seeking new ways to keep up with number of vacant propertiesA blighted home at Tioga Street and Panke Avenue in the shadow of Pittsburgh Faison PreK-5 school on Tioga Street in Homewood. | 09/18/11 |
| Officials eye federal money for vacant homes. Impact of jobs plan on Baltimore blight depends on detailsWhile most of the debate on President Barack Obama's jobs bill has focused on taxes, spending on infrastructure and unemployment insurance, housing officials in Baltimore and across the country are monitoring a little-remarked proposal to revitalize vacant and abandoned properties. | 09/18/11 |
| Cook County, IL passes groundbreaking vacant property registration ordinanceCook County – the county seat of the City of Chicago – unanimously passed landmark vacant property registration legislation in December 2011 that will help prevent neglect in unincorporated Cook and any of the County’s 128 municipalities that choose to participate. Community Progress worked with local groups to support the effort. | 12/28/11 |
