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DSWD Taps GCash for Faster Social Services, Travel Clearances, and Digital Donations

Two more agreements include the Quadripartite MOA signed between #DSWD, #LANDBANK, Treasury, and #GCash to accelerate processing of social protection and public welfar… http://www.appsgadget.com/2025/06/dswd-gcash-digital-partnership-social-services.html

Turning to #LandBank ordinance. This is something we have been talking about as a solution for many years. I personally am a big fan. Our City Manager has personal experience with this tool, which gives me great confidence.

#PhiladelphiaPA: ‘Beyond frustrating’: Sheriff’s Office problems prevent #LandBank from buying lots for #CommunityGardens, houses

Story by William Bender, Ryan W. Briggs, March 10, 2025

"Last May, City Council passed a routine bill that amended the Philadelphia Code in order to preserve the Land Bank’s ability to acquire tax-delinquent lots at sheriff sales.

"The bill was essentially a bit of legal housekeeping. It tightened up the city’s land-acquisition process in response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court case in Minnesota over a property forfeiture.

"The goal was simple: Enable the city’s Land Bank, a quasi-governmental agency, to protect 90 or so parcels of community gardens from development and continue with its overall mission of repurposing #vacant or blighted land into #AffordableHousing and other projects that benefit the public.

"The bill passed 17-0. Mayor Cherelle L. Parker — whose administration helped draft the legislation — promptly signed it into law in June 2024.

"Yet, nine months later, the Land Bank has yet to acquire the garden parcels at sheriff sale.

"In fact, it has been unable to purchase any properties through sheriff sale — for the last five years.

"The reason: a problem in Sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s office. Again."

https://infocville.com/2024/09/12/city-manager-sanders-provides-update-on-charlottesvilles-efforts-to-assist-the-unhoused/ Some helpful updates on the planned #homeless shelter (next summer at earliest) and #landbank (in legal review) for #cville . Doing the right thing is hard. #housing

Thanks to Sean Tubbs for covering recent #housing efforts here in soggy #cville and for the shoutout to the important #landbank process https://infocville.com/2024/08/08/carlton-mobile-home-park-owner-accepts-habitat-counter-offer-day-after-council-agrees-to-contribute-8-7m/

"If the #WabanakiTribes were #sovereign, they would need to be consulted on every land-use decision that might impact their territory. Potential harms to human health, water and air quality, or plants and animals would be grounds for blocking commercial activity. The influential #MaineForestProductsCouncil lobbies for #timberland owners, #logging companies, and #mills, including Maine’s largest landowner, the Canada-based #JDIrving company, which controls 1.25 million acres in the state. It has also been one of the most forceful opponents of #TribalSovereignty, arguing that any additional regulatory hurdles would stifle economic activity in the #MaineWoods."

#Maine #WabanakiAlliance #Degrowth #Environment #SevenGenerations #CorporateColonialism #Capitalism #IndigenousSovereignty #LandBank

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-planning-policy-framework--2
#NPPF
There should be an update of the Planning Policy Guidance soon too?
Also a ministerial letter.
Some headlines:
Less pressure on #GreenBelt Slight easing of bonkers housing targets, sanctions on #developers that #landbank when have planning permission.

#Planning

@AnarchoN8V I keep waiting for a #landbank option, housing options such as communes, boarding houses etc to make a comeback. Can't just complain about the oppression of capitalism, there needs to be a reprieve.

Hope comes from action. Hugging it out with cops is not going to work.

Iconic #Sydney suburb becoming a ghost town | A Current Affair

#vacancytax #LandBank

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8h7M1-hjSDQ

I'm a fan of this! SF and Oakland actually working on #landbank. In Berkeley, you saying you know you're on stolen land is enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/housing/pelosi-wins-funding-for-sf-native-american-housing-project/article_99c10b40-92b9-11ed-8116-4f990e190883.html

Breadtube vs Economics #1: Response to Philosophy Tube on Housing

A quite good critique and explainer on housing, homelessness, housing markets, and possible reforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vfx1kQlmOk

Via #Tildes https://tildes.net/~finance/t8z/breadtube_vs_economics_1_response_to_philosophy_tube_on_housing

#UnlearningEconomics #Economics #housing #homelessness #LVT #CommunityLandTrust #LandBank

Just read a newsbit about #Taichung's Central Bookstore at #Taiwan Boulevard that has been officially reopened this weekend. Saw the building on #FocusTaiwan's website and thought that I knew that building. Checked the images I took last fall when strolling the roads of Taichung, and there you go. A beautiful #Japan|ese era building. The second image is a typical #Landbank building from the Japanese era. Similar ones can be found in Taipei (at 228 Park), Tainan (at Hayashi) and Kaohsiung.

#LandBank

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