News
News from MALB
The Michigan Land Bank Association has released the following news items as a way to highlight newsworthy occurrences within the organization or make the public and Michigan Land Bank Association members aware of noteworthy information affecting land banks:
- 2024 Leadership Summit Presentations
- 2022 Leadership Summit Presentations
- MALB Hires Eric Schertzing to be its First Executive Director
- 2021 Leadership Summit
- 2021 Leadership Summit Presentations
- 2019 Leadership Summit Presentations
- How to Fund Land Banks
- MALB Releases Impact Study – Read Key Findings here!
- 2017 MALB Leadership Summit
- Michigan communities receive blight elimination grants
In the News
Recent news coverage of the Michigan Association of Land Banks and its efforts to support Michigan land banks with land bank authority operations and tax foreclosure processes as well as news related to specific land bank achievements include:
- ‘Fare Games’ competition a big win for Kalamazoo neighborhood
- Battle Creek neighborhoods are improving
- Ishpeming and Marquette County Land Bank awarded $250,000 for blight elimination
- Muskegon County awarded $1.8 million to fight residential blight
- City of Spokane looks to Michigan and Genesee County for land bank model
- “Vision of Lenawee” presents partnerships, progress
- Kalamazoo Land Bank plans to demolish 70 blighted homes across the county
- Land Bank nabs $3.8M grant to demolish blighted homes
- The art of the $1 building deal: Gambling on incentives
- Michigan Land Banks: 10 Years of Struggles and Successes