Warren — Two Michigan cities are looking to create their own land banks, a tool proponents say helps cities convert vacant or deteriorating properties into affordable housing, community gardens or ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The newly formed Grand Rapids Land Bank is focusing on affordable housing as it looks for ways to use many vacant properties in the city. Sarah Rainero, the economic ...

The Genesee County Land Bank will update the community on a multimillion-dollar effort to demolish thousands of properties in Flint-area ...

Detroit — More than half of homes purchased from the Detroit Land Bank Authority over the last decade have appreciated in value — some by tens of thousands of dollars — but the gains were not evenly ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The city of Grand Rapids is looking at creating its own land bank to manage and develop vacant properties in the city. There are 106 properties across Grand Rapids that ...

Detroit is running out of abandoned homes. Over the past decade, thousands of abandoned homes have been salvaged and rehabilitated, providing Detroiters access to affordable housing options. While the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids city leaders now have a new tool in their pocket to transform abandoned and deteriorated properties across the city into affordable housing and other community spaces.

Pittsburgh’s Land Bank appears poised to take another step in its ability to deal with abandoned properties, as the city’s school district takes up a proposed agreement that will allow the agency to ...

Through its new program, the Department of Metropolitan Development says, it has acquired 140 properties in 2024 and 2025, and has put 115 of those back on the market. (IBJ photo/Chad Williams) Over ...

There is not much land left for Wilmington to build on, so the city has no choice but to flip homes to address an urgent need for housing. Wilmington nonprofits take their own parts of the city and ...