On Nov 21, 2011 a forum with guest Mr. Dan Kildee was held on the recently passed NYS Land Banks Legislation. The forum was sponsored by:
Empire State Future
Center for Economic Growth
Preservation League of New York State
Historic Albany Foundation
Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region
Government Law Center, Albany Law School
Capital District Regional Planning Commission
Affordable Housing Partnership of the Capital Region
Mr. Daniel T. Kildee is Co-Founder and President of Center for Community Progress. Prior to founding the Center, Kildee served as Genesee County Treasurer from 1997-2009. Before his election as Treasurer, Dan served for 12 years as a Genesee County Commissioner, including five years as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners.
Dan also has served as President of the Genesee Institute, a research and training institute
focusing on Smart Growth, urban land reform, and land banking. Dan was a member of the
Executive Committee of the National Vacant Properties Campaign; Community Progress is
the successor to the Genesee Institute and the National Vacant Properties Campaign. Dan
initiated the use of Michigan's new tax foreclosure law as a tool for community development and neighborhood stabilization. He founded the Genesee Land Bank -- Michigan's first land bank, and a model for others around the nation -- and serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In 2007, Dan's Land Bank program was named winner of the Harvard University/ Fannie Mae Foundation Innovations in American Government Award for Affordable Housing.
• Land Banks can be used as an alternative to public auction or tax lien sales for disposition of properties to private investors
• Government takes control over d
isposition and use of property.
• It replaces the existing system.
• Makes sale of property policy driven – government decides who can buy it.
• “No one should have any doubt in a land bank transaction when there’s competing interests – policies should make it crystal clear who should get the property.”
• Government determines priority for the use of a property.
• Community has to be involved, however “they may not always be right – but their voices should be heard.”
• “The decisions that a land bank or government makes about the uses of the land will simply be better decisions.”
• “Land bank might be a tool just to support affordable housing providers.”
• “Land bank can sell, lease or buy on its own terms.”
• “Land bank can provide Seller financing – it might be the best way to get property into the hands of low or moderate income people who are unable to get financing otherwise.” (research: income diversity)
• “Land banks are a way to control distressed property.”
• “It is a way to cleanup what was left behind (from original people who built the community) from past unsustainable development practices.”
• “The cool thing is that it is funded with the money that used to go to those tax lien purchasers. We decided that if someone is going to make money on delinquent taxes and take control of property that comes with that system, that somebody should be us.”
• We can re-engineer it – and create new control of our own landscape and resources to re-purpose these properties.
• “In New York, you now have a land bank act on the books.”
The current Governor of the State of NY, Andrew Cuomo is the former Executive Director of HUD and was one of the original members appointed to Bill Clinton's President's Council for Sustainable Development, tasked with implementing United Nations Agenda 21 in the United States.
http://www.nysac.org/legislative-action/documents/NYSACLandBankBriefReport.pdf
Submitted by Lynn Teger
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