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Blight & Redevelopment Toolkit

Regardless of size and location, many cities throughout Georgia face challenges related to vacant, abandoned, or poorly maintained properties. This toolkit, accessible to all GMA members, seeks to address all stages of blight remediation and redevelopment and may be used to assist cities in determining how to identify blight, understand the legal implications and requirements for blight removal, and access resources to reverse the short- and long-term consequences of derelict properties. Most importantly, the toolkit allows GMA to build a knowledge base reflecting the current state of blight remediation and redevelopment as well as innovative approaches in anticipation of future trends.
 
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Case Studies, Reports, and Tools

The Value of Historic District Status in Georgia

March 7, 2019
Georgia State University Center for State and Local Finance

NLC Launches Opportunity Zone Resources

February 18, 2019
National League of Cities

Black Southerners Are Bearing the Brunt of America’s Eviction Epidemic

January 23, 2019
The Pew Charitable Trusts

How to Fund Land Banks

November 16, 2018
Shelterforce

101 Small Ways You Can Improve Your City

November 8, 2018
Curbed

Creative Placemaking and Community Safety

October 10, 2018
Urban Institute

Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development

September 14, 2018
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Community Control of Land and Housing

September 7, 2018
The Democracy Collaborative

Webinar Series Helps Cities with Redevelopment

June 15, 2018

Blight Remediation in the Southeast

June 7, 2018
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Georgia Land Bank Resource Manual

June 26, 2013

Model Derelict and Blighted Property Ordinance

June 28, 2012

Reimagine Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement

In varying degrees, vacant properties exist in virtually every community. Isolated to certain neighborhoods, they can represent the legacy of unjust race-based economic and land u...


Center for Community Progress

Resource Guide for Georgia Land Banks

The 2022 Resource Guide for Georgia Land Banks is designed to provide new and updated documents for land bank leaders as their operations mature and become more complex.


Center for Community Progress