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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts. Before Ohio’s new county land banks were conceived, the main goal from 2004 to 2006 was to respond to local leaders’ demand for speedier tax foreclosure of long tax-delinquent vacant and abandoned lands.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

By 2008, the scenario was more or less complete, with the exception of the recovery phase, which has remained difficult to predict ever since (recovery from the 1918-1920 pandemic took about five years, but it included recovery from the First World War and it led into the Great Depression of 1929). Downloadable from [link] Alexander, D.E.

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