[PDF] Land Banks And Land Banking eBook

Author : Frank S. Alexander
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Land banks
ISBN : 9780615471761

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This volume presents a descriptive analysis of the historical development of land banks and land banking programs in the United States, the legal framework for the creation of land banks, and the range of their operational strategies and activities.

Author : Zachary Small
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN :

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Land banks are quasi-governmental not-for-profit organizations that acquire, manage, and dispose of abandoned, vacant, foreclosed, and tax-delinquent properties. Local governments view land banks as an improvement to the municipal management of foreclosed property in declining cities and a tool to provide community programs that support social equity. However, land banks have been criticized for wielding too much power, concentrating demolitions in poor and minority neighborhoods, and having unfortunate parallels to the flawed, top-down policies of mid-century urban renewal. Examining land banks through a lens of social equity, this research explores the question, 'To what extent do land banks promote the well-being of those with the least.' Interviews with land-bank leaders, property acquisition and disposition data and spatial analyses are used to create comparative case study of four land banks in New York state communities. While land-bank leaders show an awareness and desire to address historic inequities in marginalized communities, social equity is generally viewed as a secondary goal to their tax-base generation and "blight" removal missions. Stable funding sources to ensure more staff resources, greater community engagement efforts, more partnerships with community-based non-profits, and alternative approaches to demolition would ensure a more socially just land-banking policy.

Author : Josh Ryan-Collins
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1786991217

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Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn’t land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land? In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, financial instability and growing inequalities - are intimately tied to the land economy. Looking at the ways in which discussions of land have been routinely excluded from both housing policy and economic theory, the authors show that in order to tackle these increasingly pressing issues a major rethink by both politicians and economists is required.

Author : Aaron Graham
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030676773

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This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals for an imperial paper currency in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic, to show how manage colonial currency and banking in the expanding empire. Existing studies have looked at the successes and failures of schemes in individual colonies. But some had grander ambitions, such as Benjamin Franklin, and offered proposals for ‘imperial’ or ‘continental’ paper currencies and monetary unions which would help knit together colonial territories throughout North America and even the Caribbean into a cohesive whole during a moment of imperial reform. This book brings together these proposals for the first time, including several never studied before, to show how thinkers and writers on empire, currency and finance drew on financial practices, precedents and principles from across the British Atlantic to present their own visions of monetary union and the future of empire. In doing so it makes an important and original contribution to the wider histories of monetary and financial thought and theory and the roots of American monetary policy, and the links between finance, empire, politics, reform and revolution. It will be of interest to academics working on the history of finance, banking and currency in the British Isles, North America and the Caribbean in the eighteenth century, as well as those working on the political economy of the British Empire, including mercantilism, trade, warfare and the politics of empire in the decades leading up to the American Revolution.

Author : Ann Louise Strong
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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"Through a comparative study of land banking in three European countries, this timely book explores the potential for land banking in the United States. Its author, a respected land-use lawyer and professor of city and regional planning, stresses, in particular, how American attitudes toward private ownership of land will affect the outcome of land bank programs. The approaches to land banking differ in Sweden, the Netherlands and France, the three nations Ann Strong has selected for review."--Jacket.