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Center for Community Progress
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2013
The Center for Community Progress exists to foster strong, equitable communities where vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties are transformed into assets for neighbors and neighborhoods. Subscribe to our channel to learn more about how to tackle vacancy and abandonment in your community, and join our newsletter to get notified about upcoming live webinars and in-person events.
Heirs’ Property as a Vacancy Issue: How Local Governments Can Address Tangled Title
When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is passed to “heirs”-the family members legally entitled to it-creating what is called “heirs’ property.” Probate courts can clarify the distribution of real property (e.g. land and buildings), but some family members may be unaware of probate, lack the resources to use it, or distrust the system.
These unresolved property issues become more complex over time. Tangled title limits access to resources to maintain the property. Some heirs may have no interest in caring for the property. Distant heirs may not even know they own a share. As a result, heirs’ properties can fall into serious disrepair and sit abandoned for decades, harming neighborhood stability.
In this webinar, the Center for Community Progress, Jacksonville LISC, and the Chatham Savannah Land Bank Authority will discuss how to address heirs’ property issues, and begin to examine how these issues intersect with efforts to address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Join this webinar to learn:
Why fractional, unrecorded ownership can set properties on the path to deterioration and abandonment by making it difficult-often impossible-to sell or insure the property; get property tax relief; or secure funding to repair or maintain it.
Hear about practical examples of local government and community partners’ work to address heirs’ property and maintain community stability, including:
• How Jacksonville LISC has helped communities understand the scale of heirs’ property, expanded access to legal service to resolve heirs’ property issues, and worked with community leaders to encourage families to engage in estate planning
• How the Chatham Savannah Land Bank Authority is working to reconnect heirs with family land
Speakers:
• Matt Kreis - General Counsel, Center for Community Progress
• Kristopher Smith - Community Development Officer, LISC Jacksonville
• Alison Goldey - Director, Chatham County/City of Savannah Land Bank Authority
These unresolved property issues become more complex over time. Tangled title limits access to resources to maintain the property. Some heirs may have no interest in caring for the property. Distant heirs may not even know they own a share. As a result, heirs’ properties can fall into serious disrepair and sit abandoned for decades, harming neighborhood stability.
In this webinar, the Center for Community Progress, Jacksonville LISC, and the Chatham Savannah Land Bank Authority will discuss how to address heirs’ property issues, and begin to examine how these issues intersect with efforts to address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Join this webinar to learn:
Why fractional, unrecorded ownership can set properties on the path to deterioration and abandonment by making it difficult-often impossible-to sell or insure the property; get property tax relief; or secure funding to repair or maintain it.
Hear about practical examples of local government and community partners’ work to address heirs’ property and maintain community stability, including:
• How Jacksonville LISC has helped communities understand the scale of heirs’ property, expanded access to legal service to resolve heirs’ property issues, and worked with community leaders to encourage families to engage in estate planning
• How the Chatham Savannah Land Bank Authority is working to reconnect heirs with family land
Speakers:
• Matt Kreis - General Counsel, Center for Community Progress
• Kristopher Smith - Community Development Officer, LISC Jacksonville
• Alison Goldey - Director, Chatham County/City of Savannah Land Bank Authority
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How Did We Get Here? VAD Properties and The Property Revitalization Framework
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Vacant Land Stewardship
มุมมอง 48หลายเดือนก่อน
Vacant lots make up the majority of vacant property inventories across the country and hold immense potential to become community assets. But residents interested in revitalizing vacant land are often burdened by a lack of access, permission, and resources to put ideas into action. Understanding and addressing vacant land as a system can maximize the potential of these often-forgotten spaces. S...
Creative Placemaking 101: A Tool for Community-Centered Revitalization
มุมมอง 40หลายเดือนก่อน
Creative placemaking is the practice of enhancing a neighborhood’s quality of life through arts, culture, and intentional community development to meet residents’ vision. This community revitalization strategy creates space for community members to collectively imagine what vacant properties can become. Creative placemaking has helped communities across the country turn vacant properties into c...
Resident-First Revitalization: Collaborating with Communities for Maximum Impact
มุมมอง 94หลายเดือนก่อน
When local government leaders, philanthropic organizations, and community organizations decide what to do with vacant property, many residents are often left out of the conversation. But more effective resident engagement is possible, and community-led planning is a powerful tool for building capacity, ownership, and equity in communities. This session will cover the transformative impact of in...
Land Banks and Land Banking 101
มุมมอง 179หลายเดือนก่อน
In the last decade, the number of land banks and land banking programs across the United States has increased to over 300 across nineteen states. Land banks are public entities with unique powers to return vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties to productive use. While land banks are not a silver bullet to property vacancy, they can be a powerful tool to advance community-driven goals i...
Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement 101: A Critical Neighborhood Stabilization Tool
มุมมอง 37หลายเดือนก่อน
Property taxes fund schools, roads, community safety, and other vital public services. However, the processes that incentivize property tax payment must minimize harm to homeowners and neighborhoods with a large number of tax-delinquent and vacant properties. Many property tax enforcement systems trap low-income homeowners, neighborhood residents, and deteriorating properties in high-vacancy ne...
Strategic Code Compliance 101
มุมมอง 60หลายเดือนก่อน
Housing and building code enforcement can help cities improve individual problem properties and revitalize neighborhoods, but many local governments find the traditional approach of using civil and criminal penalties to get compliance doesn’t work-and leads to inequitable outcomes. A more strategic approach, focusing on the strategies that effectively bring properties into compliance rather tha...
Vacant Land Collaborations and Data: Lessons from CLEVLOT
มุมมอง 462 หลายเดือนก่อน
Throughout the country, communities are grappling with large inventories of publicly owned vacant and underutilized lots. These lots can significantly drain public resources and create safety and health concerns for neighbors. Leaders in Cleveland are implementing strategies to transfer these vacant lots to new, responsible owners with Cleveland Vacant Land Opportunity Tool (CLEVLOT). CLEVLOT i...
Partnering with Public Schools: MALB's Creative Neighborhood Beautification Pilot Program
มุมมอง 342 หลายเดือนก่อน
Partnering with Public Schools: Metro Atlanta Land Bank’s Creative Neighborhood Beautification Pilot Program Land banks are stewards of the vacant lots and deteriorated properties in their inventories, from cutting grass and cleaning up trash to boarding up vacant structures. This work, which deters illegal dumping and prevents further deterioration, is a vital part of neighborhood health and s...
Reevaluating Code Enforcement: A New Approach to Addressing Problem Properties
มุมมอง 1804 หลายเดือนก่อน
Code enforcement is a powerful and often overlooked system capable of not only fixing issues on problem properties, but also strengthening neighborhoods. Many local governments dealing with a lot of vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties are finding traditional code enforcement-focused on issuing citations and collecting fines-isn’t working. A more strategic approach focused on complian...
Policy Reform Post-Tyler v. Hennepin County
มุมมอง 2367 หลายเดือนก่อน
Policy Reform Post-Tyler v. Hennepin County: Preserving Homeownership, Preventing Vacancy, and Reducing Legal Risk Following the Supreme Court’s Tyler v. Hennepin County decision, state and local governments are working to understand its potential impact on their property tax enforcement systems. Though questions remain, the decision creates an opportunity to reform and improve property tax enf...
Dealing with Vacant Buildings and Lots as a Resident
มุมมอง 1447 หลายเดือนก่อน
If you live in a community with many vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties, the issue can feel insurmountable. Vacant properties-whether they’re dilapidated houses or overgrown lots-harm neighbors and neighborhoods. But doing something about problem properties is difficult, because of the complicated web of laws that govern who owns a property and what a local government can do about i...
Contracts and Codes: What Land Banks Should Know About Community Gardens
มุมมอง 1088 หลายเดือนก่อน
Community gardens are a popular strategy for vacant land reuse and are a priority for many residents-especially in food deserts. Unfortunately, residents who want to transform a vacant lot in their neighborhood into a community garden often don’t have the resources to buy a land bank property. So too, many land banks find it uniquely challenging to safely transition a vacant lot for food produc...
Land Banking in New Jersey: Lessons Learned from Newark and Advancing the Field of Practice
มุมมอง 819 หลายเดือนก่อน
In October 2019, the Newark Land Bank (NLB) was established as the first land bank in New Jersey. Since its inception, NLB has cultivated critical partnerships and instituted innovative programs to support affordable housing development and homeownership opportunities. New Jersey communities interested in forming land banks to address VAD issues in pursuit of community goals can learn from NLB....
Land Banking 101: An Introduction to Land Banks and the New Jersey Land Bank Law
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Land Banking 101: An Introduction to Land Banks and the New Jersey Land Bank Law
Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF)
มุมมอง 6510 หลายเดือนก่อน
Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF)
Tyler v. Hennepin County: Guidance and Policy Reform for State and Local Governments
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Tyler v. Hennepin County: Guidance and Policy Reform for State and Local Governments
Resident-First Revitalization in a Rapidly Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhood
มุมมอง 17611 หลายเดือนก่อน
Resident-First Revitalization in a Rapidly Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhood
Utilizing Partnerships and Collaboration in Vacant Land Stewardship
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Utilizing Partnerships and Collaboration in Vacant Land Stewardship
Reimagine Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement
มุมมอง 224ปีที่แล้ว
Reimagine Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement
Incorporating Green Building Into Your Equitable Community Development Plan
มุมมอง 122ปีที่แล้ว
Incorporating Green Building Into Your Equitable Community Development Plan
How to Use Property Condition Data for Vacant Land Stewardship
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How to Use Property Condition Data for Vacant Land Stewardship
Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference - Chicago, Illinois (2022)
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Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference - Chicago, Illinois (2022)
Land Banks and Land Banking Partnerships
มุมมอง 4532 ปีที่แล้ว
Land Banks and Land Banking Partnerships
Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement 101
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Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement 101
They empty apt are a home for the varmints..mice rats to live...let real people live there.
I am just learning about this program .
Targeting racial groups for qualifying criteria means this program is another leftist vehicle to extract tax dollars for personal gains... this is doa in SCOTUS
Thank You!
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Thank you for providing this presentation to the public. We are trying to start a similar initiative in York PA and your work is so informative to our approach.
the west or the US? in the US we are very self absorbed, overly pragmatic in terms of profiteering and will put that above any sort of priciple that upholds rights, justice or equality. It is sad to say but that is a theme that becomes more prevelant with every passing day. It makes every progressive movement look like a sham. I watch the way folks respond to something like landlords that pricegouge tenants simply because they have the ability to do so and it gives me the impression that many of these people would gleefully step on or over their neighbor to make a quick buck out of some vague notion of oppourtunistic survivalism. I really hate saying these things about my country but its the behavior that they have exibited and it is shameful.
Excellent presentation
HOW CAN I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE PROPERTIES??
I would really like to start a Land bank in Maryland.
I would love to speak with you.
Very helpful
This was amazing thank you so much for your transparency and highlighting the good and the bad. NICE!!!
She conveniently skipped over the Great Recession as a result of predatory banks preying on Black and Brown people that caused illegal foreclosures and home seizures of thousands of homes and created the abandoned properties in the first place. Abandoned properties are stolen by landbanks and resold to speculative real estate investors.
This is fascinating and immensely informative, especially post covid. Thank you for sharing!
can barely hear the narrators voiceover with my volume turned up to full...maybe this is why only 212 people have viewed this video after a year of display. At 2:40 i can now hear the person being interviewed. Can some tech interns be deployed to help make this type of thing more viewer friendly?
I'm in Memphis Tennessee I am interested in seeking how can this organization assist me in my objective to create an organization purchase properties to rebuild my community
Would love this opportunity in East Parkside, Philadelphia, PA
GO IAN !!!! #FightBlight