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
One facet of the legislation stipulated that Michigan land banks must be created by intergovernmental collaboration between a county and the state land bank. In the 20 years since this legislation, Michigan has formed 48 county land banks, one city land bank (DLBA), and the state land bank, which serves the remaining 35 counties.
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.
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
AUGUST 20, 2017
As we all know, the legal authority of public bureaucrats to make decisions resides in the delegation of discretion from elected legislators and executives, such as the president or state governors, to administrative agents. He passed away in 2009; yet, his legacy in the field of Public Administration continues to live on.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. Its replacement with a long and rambling piece of ad hoc legislation that veers from the draconian to the incomprehensible and back again is more reminiscent of North Korea or Belarus than it is of a western democracy.
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.
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