In this week's column, a deep dive into city land sale dysfunction and the continuing budget woes in Harrisburg.

Blight-targeting land banks used their trump bid power to acquire 19 tax-delinquent properties so they won’t be listed in Luzerne County’s Thursday free-and-clear auction. Authorized by 2012 state ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The City’s Director of Housing Initiatives said a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling will make it substantially more expensive for the Kingston City Land Bank to acquire properties seized ...

Eighteen properties have been removed from Thursday’s Luzerne County free-and-clear delinquent tax auction because land banks have exercised their authority to acquire them through “trump bids,” the ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Kingston City Land Bank has completed the sale of the first four homes in its affordable homeownership Keystone Program, the agency announced last week. The homes, set for ...

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker is shaking up the board of the Philadelphia Land Bank, which helps control the sale of city-owned land but hasn’t been moving fast enough to advance her housing priorities.

DETROIT (WXYZ) — The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department was providing inaccurate information to the Detroit Land Bank about water service on a number of houses ...

Three homes have been renovated in the City of Binghamton using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, and they are now for sale. The Broome County Land Bank on Sept. 8 announced renovations at ...

Over the past several months, Indianapolis leaders have been staking colorful signs into the yards of city-owned vacant ...