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Cook County IL passes groundbreaking vacant property registration ordinance: Full ordinancePublication Date: 12/28/2011
Cook 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...
Cook County IL passes groundbreaking vacant property registration ordinance: learn more about the issue and the legislation from this PowerPoint presentationPublication Date: 12/28/2011
Cook 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...
Cook County Land Bank TAP ReportPublication Date: 12/18/2012
By Urban Land Institute, Chicago
Cook County, Illinois has faced a widespread problem of vacancy and abandonment, especially following the recent foreclosure crisis. This report, produced by a Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) to support land banking efforts in the County, introduces the problem of...
Potential Land Bank Revenue SourcesBy Community Progress
This resource provides a list of potential short term and start up revenues, as well as long term funding sources for the operation of a land bank. Some of the information was developed specifically for Cook County, Illinois, but could be useful in developing...
2012 RVP Conference - Regional Strategies PresentationsHow to Build Regional Models to Address Vacancy and Abandonment: Pathways to City and County CollaborationLocal governments from across the country are feeling the effects of declining budgets and increasing need for public services, which often pit city and county governments against each other....
Economic Impacts of the Ingham County Land Bank (2006-2012)Publication Date: 8/29/2013
BY THE MSU LAND POLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE INGHAM COUNTY LAND BANK FAST TRACK AUTHORITY, TREASURER’S OFFICE, INGHAM COUNTY, MICHIGAN
The primary objective of this research is to determine what, if any, positive effect Land Bank activities have on nearby property values and...
From Revenue to Reuse: Managing Tax-Reverted Properties in DetroitPublication Date: 4/1/2011
This report from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan examines Wayne County, Michigan's tax foreclosure auction process. It offers numerous recommendations to increase revenue, decrease administrative costs and increase positive reuse of tax...
Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation: the Beginning, the Present, and Beyond, 2009 - 2011Publication Date: 11/17/2011
By W. Dennis Keating, PhD, Cleveland State University
Dennis Keating of Cleveland State University in Ohio spent six weeks with Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization staff to learn more about the inner workings of the land bank, and compiled that information into a comprehensive report about one of...
Community Revitalization Resulting from Stormwater Management StrategiesBy Hamilton County Planning and Development
This report provides many examples of community revitalization through stormwater management - highlighting daylighting, natural vegetation, and bioswales.
Read the full report here....
Economic Impacts of Residential Property Abandonment and the Genesee County Land Bank in Flint, MichiganPublication Date: 4/1/2007
By Nigel G. Griswold and Patricia E. Norris for Land Policy Institute
The costs of abandonment have been documented for some time – higher crime rates, decreased property values, reduced tax revenue…this study adds to the growing research proving that the value of intervention can be...
New episode of video series showcases how land banks can transform communitiesPublication Date: 12/27/2011
The latest edition of The Bright Side features guest host Dan Kildee of Community Progress, with segments on housing and green projects, deconstruction, commercial development and the basics of land banking. CEDAM, the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan, produces this engaging...
Vacant Land Now & Tomorrow: Building Enduring Values with Natural AssetsPublication Date: 11/3/2008
By Joan Iverson Nassauer and Rebekah VanWieren
This report anaylzes the pioneering revitalization effort of the Genesee County Land Bank as model for the type of policies and approaches land banks across the country can emulate.
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Foreclosure and Beyond: A Report on Ownership and Housing Prices Following Sheriff's Sales, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 2000-2007Publication Date: 1/1/2008
By Claudia Coulton, Kristen Mikelbank, and Michael Schramm
Published by The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
Rates of foreclosure have quadrupled since 2000 in Cuyahoga County, primarily as a...
Dynamic Maps of Mortgage Conditions in the United StatesMaintained by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York maintains a map of the United States with mortgage delinquencies reported by county. The maps can show either data from the latest quarter reported, or the year-to-year change. Data can be disaggregated to show...
Land Banks as a Redevelopment ToolPublication Date: 4/1/2011
By Dan Kildee, Center for Community Progress
Community Progress President and former Genesee County (MI) Treasurer uses this presentation to explore how regional land banks can be used to redevelop some of the most distressed properties.
Kildee first gave the presentation during the 2011...
Land Banks as a Redevelopment Tool - Cascade NewsletterPublication Date: 9/1/2010
By Dan Kildee
The Fall 2010 issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Cascade newsletter focuses on urban renewal and how localities like Philadelphia and Flint are using traditionally-troublesome vacant and abadoned properties to its advanage. Kildee explains in the article he wrote for...
The Role of Investors in the Single-Family Market in Distressed Neighborhoods: The Case of AtlantaPublication Date: 2/5/2013
By Dan Immergluck
As a result of the housing crisis, Atlanta has experienced a significant increase in the number of investor-owned single-family properties. This study seeks to describe the flow of single-family properties coming out REO status and the behavior of...
The Art of Code Enforcement: A Practical GuidePublication Date: 8/19/2012
By Martin Collins
This book offers a number of tools and strategies for code enforcement administration.
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