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Mar 23, 2023 · This municipality invested in an innovative and timely multi-community collaboration for broadband internet services delivery, involving some four municipalities and five First Nations—a collaborative approach celebrated in the annals of rural development (e.g., Beattie & Annis, 2008; Korsching et al., 1992), and currently being rearticulated in so-called New Regionalism (Daniels et al., 2019).
Any municipality outside of a census metropolitan area is rural. This classification considers all large cities as the same, given their shared urban characteristics. It also considers smaller cities, small towns, and rural areas as the same. ROI acknowledges that there are limitations to this approach and that differences exist within these ...
Mar 10, 2020 · Furthermore, the amount of built-up area per capita is closely linked to the income of a country and will distort the population share in cities and rural areas. To show this, we defined cities as cells of 250 by 250 meters that are at least 50% built-up and rural areas as cells that are less than 25% built-up.
Mar 23, 2023 · The rural municipality in Canada: A critical overview of recent research and some perspectives on the development agenda. First published: 23 March 2023.
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Land banks are a mechanism for acquiring, holding, and distributing property in service of community goals. Land banks, which can be government supported, quasi-governmental or independent non-profit organizations, obtain land through a number of different mechanisms: tax foreclosures, municipal government transfers, donations, or open-market purch...
Land banks can be an effective mechanism to help achieve community development goals in a range of different housing market types. Regardless of the type of housing market, land banks can generally be used to: 1. Hold and maintain properties until a strategy for disposition is determined 2. Package adjacent properties together for sale to developer...
Creating a land bank
Localities interested in land banking should first check to see whether their state has passed legislation to enable land banking. According to the Center for Community Progress, as of 2021, municipalities in 28 states have land banks, and 16 states have passed state-wide land bank enabling legislation.In states that have not passed enabling legislation to give land banks greater power to acquire and dispose of properties, local governments can advocate for the passage of these laws. Land ban...
Working with a land bank
Local governments are generally directly involved with land banks that operate in their area, with local government officials often serving on the land bank’s board. In some areas, land banks also receive funding from or share staff with local governments. Local governments and land banks should work together to help meet community goals. The following are three actions a locality can take to support its land bank: Work with the land bank to clearly define the problem the land bank will addre...
Activities of a land bank should complement other community strategies and activities, such as strategic code enforcement, effective tax collection, and vacant property inventorying. A vacant prope...Especially in communities with a mix of strong and weak housing submarkets, a land bank and a Community Land Trust (CLT) may be usedto serve complementary purposes. A land bank could exercise its a...Land banks can be vehicles for promoting racial equity and reducing racial disparities. For example, in 2020, Enterprise Community Partners awardednearly $7 million in funding to existing land ban...Philadelphia’s land bank was created in 2013 in order to help repurpose vacant buildings and land for community needs. The land bank’s 2017 strategic plan emphasizes returning vacant and underutilized publicly-owned property to productive use, supporting both affordable and mixed-income housing. This strategy seeks to address the fact that some nei...
The Center for Community Progress provides technical support and resources to land banks nationwide. Their website includes a map showing more than 250 land banks. They have also assembled articles...This HUD report broadly defines land banks, outlines the elements that are critical for successful land banks and also discusses potential sources of income for land banks. Another HUD report descr...Shelterforce has a number of articles on land banking, including how to fund land banks and the difference between land banks and community land trusts, and how the two strategies can complement ea...Jun 15, 2023 · A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.”. We wrote about how land banks and community land trusts can work together. A conservation land trust is a nonprofit that owns land or conservation easements for open space purposes.
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Through their on-the-ground presence in all regions across Canada and networks with businesses, industry organizations, communities, and municipal governments, regional development agencies have a solid expertise and long-standing experience in the delivery of regionally-tailored programs and services, and are positioned to respond to specific regional challenges in rural communities and ...
