Blight-targeting land banks used their trump bid power to acquire 19 tax-delinquent properties so they won’t be listed in Luzerne County’s Thursday free-and-clear auction. Authorized by 2012 state ...

Spokane's Regional Land Bank is still fairly new, looking to provide developers of affordable housing with buildable lots.

The agreement slashes the amount of time it takes the Land Bank to clear the title of a tax-deliquent property. The battle to reclaim vacant and abandoned tax-deliquent houses and lots in the city of ...

A concentration of Turn the Key properties on N Marston Street in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Have a question about Philly’s neighborhoods or the systems that ...

Detroit — More than half of homes purchased from the Detroit Land Bank Authority over the last decade have appreciated in value — some by tens of thousands of dollars — but the gains were not evenly ...

The lot at 3502 Mingo St, which is one of the vacant properties listed on the city's urban land bank program plan, photographed on April 23, in Dallas. Dallas City Council will hold a public hearing ...

Formerly vacant properties could soon be on the market in Westmoreland County. The county’s land bank, the agency responsible for collecting and rehabilitating properties, has put out a call for ...

Through its new program, the Department of Metropolitan Development says, it has acquired 140 properties in 2024 and 2025, and has put 115 of those back on the market. (IBJ photo/Chad Williams) Over ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In 2022, when Christa Stoneham became CEO of Houston Land Bank, ...

HAZELWOOD WITH THE MESSAGE FROM MAYOR ED GAINEY. CITY OF PITTSBURGH LEADERS SAY THAT THEY’RE TRYING TO REVITALIZE NEIGHBORHOODS AND MAKE HOMES MORE AFFORDABLE. THAT’S WHY THEY’RE PARTNERING WITH ...

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