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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

Despite this, the 2020 pandemic has obvious similarities with previous outbreaks of viral diseases and with many other kinds of disaster. Internationally, the greatest lesson of the previous SARS pandemic (2002-2004) was that international cooperation was the key to reducing its impact. IRDR Report 2020-01.

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