Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
The disproportionate impact in Ohio paved the way for Ohio’s General Assembly to pass a comprehensive county land bank statute in 2009. However, to fully understand how this legislation came to pass, and why it is helpful contextually to review the history of land banking and tax foreclosure in Ohio. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law.
Center for Community Progress
AUGUST 17, 2023
Land banks in Michigan are a flexible tool with unique powers granted to them in state law to return vacant properties to productive use as new homes, businesses, or greenspace through demolition, rehabilitation, and maintenance. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6% The Ingham County Land Bank saw a return of $1.82
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Center for Community Progress
AUGUST 30, 2022
Passed in 1977, the Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) is one of the most important pieces of legislation working to bring financial resources into historically underserved neighborhoods nationwide. You can read our comment here.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). I have taught it every year since then.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JANUARY 27, 2022
Long Island’s housing production fell by 58 percent from the 2001-2008 period to the 2009-2018 period and in the northern suburbs, production fell by 50 percent during the same period. The brief highlights the impact of New York’s restrictive zoning on housing supply and the risks of future legislative inaction.
Partnership for Public Service
AUGUST 4, 2022
In their conversation with co-hosts Loren DeJonge Schulman and Rachel Klein-Kircher, Ishimaru and Ma discussed: How they have applied their law training to pursue “mission-driven work” in the federal government and with policy advocacy nonprofit organizations. Rebuilding an agency to better serve the public.
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