[PDF] Towards Equitable Land Banking eBook

Author : Zachary Small
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2018
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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 : Piyush Tiwari
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9784899742098

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Developing Asia's demand for high-quality, integrated infrastructure requires a steady but equitable supply of land. However, obtaining rights over land can be complicated by hurdles imposed by geography, settlement patterns, conflicting cultures, sociopolitical factors, and land use problems unique to each country. This timely volume identifies policies that can balance the rights and interests of first nations' peoples, informal settlers, and rural landowners against the development imperatives of land procurement for the greater public good. It provides instructive case studies of the state of Asian land registration, eminent domain, and redevelopment in situations of vulnerable communities. The collected chapters also propose and assess some promising models that might be customized to local conditions, such as long-term land leasing with options to buy. This is a companion volume to ADBI Press' pioneering series of titles (all available through Brookings Press)--Infrastructure for a Seamless Asia; Financing Infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific: Capturing Impacts and New Sources; and Principles of Infrastructure: Case Studies and Best Practices. This volume will be of interest to policymakers, practitioners, academics, and students.

Author : Veršinskas, T., Hartvigsen, M., Gorgan, M.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9251356300

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Many countries in Western Europe have a long tradition of applying land banking as part of the integrated toolbox of land management instruments. As with land consolidation, the traditional purpose of land banking has been to support agriculture and rural development by reducing land fragmentation and facilitating the enlargement of farms. In Western Europe, the objectives of land banking have developed over the last decades, and today, in several countries, the instrument is applied in a multi-purpose approach together with land consolidation. In most countries, land banking shares the objectives of land consolidation, which in addition to continued agricultural development, supports the implementation of public projects in rural areas where private landowners and farmers are requested to give up agricultural land, for example, in connection with the construction of infrastructure projects such as highways and railways or for the implementation of public projects related to nature restoration, afforestation or climate change adaptation and mitigation. In a few Western European countries, land banking is also applied on use rights, where a lease facilitation approach connects owners of agricultural land not using their land and often leaving it abandoned, with local farmers interested in farming more land. This study first analyses and identifies good European practices on land banking, discusses experiences from the introduction of land banking instruments in countries in Central Europe. Finally, it provides policy recommendations for the introduction of land banking, with a focus on countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.