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2024 Non-Property Related Activities
2024 NON-PROPERTY RELATED ACTIVITIES
Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference • The entire MALB staff attended the Reclaiming Vacant Properties (RVP) Conference October 9-11, 2024 in St. Louis, MO. • The conference, hosted by the Center for Community Progress, is the only national conference dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods to help address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties. • Since 2007, RVP continues to uplift innovative solutions that disrupt the cycle of vacancy, inspire change, and transform community from the ground up.
CCP Developers of Color Cohort • In February 2024, the Georgia Office of the Center for Community Progress (CCP), requested that the MALB join their Developers of Color & Land Banks Project. • During the RVP conference in St. Louis, the Cohort gathered for a networking lunch. • The goal of the Cohort was to partner local land banks with developers of color (both nonprofit and mission focused for profit) to identify strategies and relationships that would lower barriers to access for developers of color created by decades of systemic racism in metro Atlanta’s real estate and finance sectors. • The final product will be a playbook developed by CCP to put recommendations into action by raising awareness of existing tools, expanding opportunities for partnerships with land banks, and advancing changes to current funding, or the creation of new funding mechanisms, to support small-to-medium-scale developers of color.
Metro Atlanta Land Bank // Annual Report 2024
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