In 2024, the NYLBA hired Center for Community Progress to research trends and costs of providing emergency housing in 8 rural counties served by land banks. Their report, released in February 2025, can be downloaded by clicking on the image below.
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A report by Center for Community Progress. February 2023.
RESOURCES
Emergency Housing in Rural Upstate New York: How Land Banks May Help Address the Crisis. A report by Center for Community Progress. February 2025.
A Decade of Progress. Celebrating 10 Years of Land Banking in New York; A report by Center for Community Progress. February 2023.
Piloting New Partnership Opportunities Between a Land Bank and Community Land Trust in Albany, NY; A report by Center for Community Progress through their Technical Assistance Scholarship Program. November 2017.
New York State Land Banks: A New National Standard; A report on the first five years of land banking in NY State by the New York Land Bank Association and Center for Community Progress. May 2017.
Revitalizing NY State: A report on NY Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s Land Bank Community Revitalization Initiative; November, 2016
Land Banks Enter the Fight Against Blight Research Brief by NY Comptroller's Division of Local Government and School Accountability; October 2016
New York State Land Banks: Combating Blight and Vacancy in NY Communities; A report made possible by the Ford Foundation, CenterState CEO, Center for Community Progress, Buffalo State, and the NY Land Bank Association; 2014
Center for Community Progress: Land Bank Resource Center
“Take it to the Bank: How Land Banks are Strengthening America’s Neighborhoods”; Center for Community Progress; 2014
“Land Banks and Land Banking, 2nd Edition”; Frank S. Alexander; 2015