{"id":50343,"date":"2023-02-27T07:04:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=50343"},"modified":"2023-02-27T07:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:04:16","slug":"ny-landbank-association-chautauqua-county-land-bank-celebrate-10-years-of-growth-and-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/ny-landbank-association-chautauqua-county-land-bank-celebrate-10-years-of-growth-and-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Landbank Association, Chautauqua County Land Bank Celebrate 10 Years of Growth and Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-York-Land-Banks-ROI-Summary.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50344\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/ny-landbank-association-chautauqua-county-land-bank-celebrate-10-years-of-growth-and-impact\/new-york-land-banks-roi-summary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-York-Land-Banks-ROI-Summary.jpg?fit=812%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"812,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"New York Land Banks ROI Summary\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-York-Land-Banks-ROI-Summary.jpg?fit=244%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-York-Land-Banks-ROI-Summary.jpg?fit=812%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-50344\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-York-Land-Banks-ROI-Summary.jpg?resize=305%2C376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-York-Land-Banks-ROI-Summary.jpg?w=812&amp;ssl=1 812w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-York-Land-Banks-ROI-Summary.jpg?resize=244%2C300&amp;ssl=1 244w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-York-Land-Banks-ROI-Summary.jpg?resize=768%2C946&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>The <strong>New York Landbank Association<\/strong>, as well as the <strong>Chautauqua County Land Bank<\/strong>, are celebrating over 10 years of growth and impact in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Chautauqua County Land Bank Executive Director <strong>Gina Paradis<\/strong> said land banks were created by New York State in 2012 as a way to deal with vacant and abandoned properties following the <strong>2008 mortgage crisis<\/strong>, &#8220;And they saw the success that other states were having with land banks, primarily in Michigan and Ohio. And so they worked with some people to really understand land banking and how those tools could work and decided to put together the legislation to create the authority for land banks to be created in taxing jurisdictions throughout the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the last decade, land banks in the state have<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Acquired over 5,000 problem properties<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0Demolished 1,567 vacant structures<br \/>\n&#8211; Returned 3,231 properties to productive use<br \/>\n&#8211; Generated more than $300 million in private investment<br \/>\n&#8211; And returned $135 million in assessed value to local tax rolls<\/p>\n<p>Paradis said of those figures, the Chautauqua County Land Bank has acquired 362 properties, demolished 172 structures, and returned $8.5 million to the tax rolls.<\/p>\n<p>She said the pandemic hurt the land bank&#8217;s ability to acquire properties, as the county&#8217;s <strong>tax auction<\/strong> was on hiatus from January 2020 until July 2022, &#8220;We really went a couple of years with no inventory to sell and still plenty of demos to do. But we ended up in that real tough situation where we had little inventory to create revenue and our grand funding was twilighting and we were looking at a gap in funding for that period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paradis said funding assistance by the <strong>Sheldon Foundation<\/strong> as well as revenues from previous years helped bridge the gap. She said mortgage crisis settlement monies initially funded land banks in the state, but that funding has been totally expended. Paradis said the proposed state budget includes a line item for Land Banks that she&#8217;s hopeful will get passed.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2022, <strong>Jamestown City Council<\/strong> approved allocating $1 million in <strong>American Rescue Plan<\/strong> Act funds to the Chautauqua County Land Bank. Paradis said that contract is still in the review process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Landbank Association, as well as the Chautauqua County Land Bank, are celebrating over 10 years of growth and impact in the state. Chautauqua County Land Bank Executive Director Gina Paradis said land banks were created by New York State in 2012 as a way to deal with vacant and abandoned properties following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":50345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12967,10348,8164,6222,1122,12966,1842,11868],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-York-Land-Banks-ROI-Summary-feat.jpg?fit=1000%2C609&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-d5Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52303,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/chautauqua-county-land-bank-receives-1-2-million-from-nys\/","url_meta":{"origin":50343,"position":0},"title":"Chautauqua County Land Bank Receives $1.2 Million From NYS","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"June 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chautauqua County Land Bank has received $1.2 million in funding support from New York State. 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