Sentences with phrase «community land bank»

The Troy Community Land Bank, which received its designation only last month, will receive more than $ 1.25 million in this round of awards.

The Troy Community Land Bank will use its latest round of state funding to stabilize and rehabilitate properties in the city's North Central neighborhood.

The Troy Community Land Bank was among the successful bidders as it offers for seven parcels on Glen Avenue and River Street were accepted.

Madeline Fletcher, executive director of Newburgh Community Land Bank, has high hopes for the program.

The property, which was acquired by the Newburgh Community Land Bank in 2013, was renovated by a local architect and now provides three families with affordable rental housing.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will announce a plan to give $ 20 million to community land banks during a visit to Syracuse Wednesday, June 26, 2013.

Schneiderman is expected to announce in Syracuse today a plan to give $ 20 million to community land banks.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called the press conference to announce that he would give $ 20 million to help eight newly - formed community land banks get off the ground.

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But unlike the Forest Preserve District, which can let its acquisitions sit undeveloped for years in a land bank, the park systems are constantly under pressure to provide their growing populations with playgrounds, community centers, athletic fields and swimming pools.

The omnibus extraordinary session package also provides a financial incentives to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

For Israel, the survival of Hamas and terrorists justifies all of its security policies and persecution of the Palestinians in the West Bank (by seizing land for military purposes, cutting off communities and thus hampering commerce, revoking permits to travel in between zone A and zones B and C, and outcasting Palestinians from Jerusalem).

Since 2013, The New York State Attorney General has committed more than $ 30 million through the Land Bank Community Revitalization Initiative (Land Bank CRI), with funding secured through settlements with the nation's largest banks over misconduct that contributed to the housing crisis.

This funding supports legally designated Land Banks, formed under the New York State Land Bank Act of 2011, to protect homeowners and neighborhoods across the state by acquiring vacant, blighted homes and transforming them into community assets.

The Land Bank will sell or lease properties for green uses such as community gardens.

«Under this program, residential properties owned by individuals, the Albany County Land Bank and the Albany Community Development Agency will be eligible for funding up to $ 50,000 per building.

A five - year progress report prepared by the Center for Community Progress for the NY Land Bank Association.

«For a moment I was a little afraid, because there was a serious monsoon of efforts to create community gardens and green spaces, none of which generate any revenue,» said Bey, referring to dozens of community gardens the land bank has established throughout the city.

New York's $ 182 million share of the nationwide $ 7 million Citigroup settlement includes at least $ 90 million in mortgage relief as well as directing funding for land banks and community development agencies aimed at housing for low - income earners, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Monday announced.

Revitalizing NY State: A report on NY Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's Land Bank Community Revitalization Initiative.

«Expanding the number of land banks throughout the state provides a boost for struggling urban communities, empowers municipalities and opens countless doors for community revitalization and economic development,» Silver said.

In 2011, the state approved land bank legislation to help communities deal with vacant and abandoned properties after the housing crisis, but until recently the effort lacked the needed funding.

Horrigan also pointed to the start up of the County Land Bank Corporation, which is helping to remove blighted property from several communities and bring that property back in the tax roll.

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

It would create a land bank to allow communities in the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve to accomplish small projects without the need to amend the state constitution.

The homeowner relief from Bank of America will target low - income communities where many residents have mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration, and includes plans to turn over vacant foreclosed properties to land banks and municipalities, and to chip in toward their repair or demolition.

The Greater Syracuse Land Bank has been working to demolish «blighted» properties in the city, per Syracuse.com, with the help of about $ 5 million in grants from Schneiderman's Land Bank Community Revitalization Initiative.

With many Upstate municipalities suffering from an overabundance in vacant and abandoned properties due to population losses, land banks will give cities and counties a new tool to rebuild communities and foster local economic development.

Former Assemblyman Sam Hoyt said, «Other states have seen the value of using land banks to convert dilapidated properties and rebuild communities, and New York is much better off with this new law.

I included the creation of land banks in my urban agenda as a way to help transform our struggling urban communities.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed a law allowing municipalities to create land banks to convert vacant properties into uses that support community revitalization.

The MP claimed credit for the Community Day SHS disclosing she lobbied the World Bank and had land permit from the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) for the construction of the school.

He also has named Mike Jacobson, the former head of Capital District Habitat for Humanity and a board member of the Albany County Land Bank, to lead the city's economic and community development efforts.

Kenmore, New York — Legislator Peter J. Savage, III joined Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz, Mayor of the Village of Kenmore Patrick Mang, staff from the Buffalo Erie Niagara County Land Improvement Corporation (BENLIC — «The Land Bank»), representatives of JPMorgan Chase, and community members at 22 Allegany Avenue in Kenmore to unveil the Land Bank's latest renovation project.

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Land banks are working at the local level across New York State to rebuild and revitalize their communities.

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Syracuse is doing more to proactively address abandoned properties than any other NY community with a land bank.»

The Land Bank's primary purpose is to return vacant, abandoned, underutilized, and tax - delinquent properties to productive use in ways that support the community's long - range vision for its future.

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Adirondack and Catskills communities are also holding their breath for an amendment that would create a land bank of sorts for needed infrastructure projects such as road, water and sewer.

It will also help communities upstate increase affordable housing by providing funding for community land trusts and land banks to revitalize our communities.

The final legislation renames the Tappan Zee Bridge after former Gov. Mario Cuomo; provides a financial incentive package to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

• Research and schedule public relations opportunities and / or partnership opportunities for the Land Bank: television, radio, newspaper, blog, block clubs, community groups, foundations, non-profits

Launched «Neighbors for Neighborhoods» in August 2016, a $ 4 million pilot program that will enable land banks to provide subsidies for local community members to take over individual, abandoned properties and convert them into long - term affordable rental units.

The Land Bank is a shining example of what we are capable of when we rise above political self - interests to do what's best for the community.

The Land Bank makes our city safer, builds community, improves property values and lifts up struggling neighborhoods.

Garwood says the Land Bank will help community development programs like HOME Rochester save up to $ 18,000 per property in acquisition fees, such as legal and survey costs.

With County Executive Poloncarz's leadership and the strong support of Mayors Brown, Pilozzi, and Szymanski, our community demonstrated the kind of regional cooperation that will serve to make the land bank a success, and it's an effort that is being justly rewarded by New York State.»