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Louisville Metro Council Committee Scrutinizes Landbank Authority
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Some Louisville Metro Council members are calling for changes to how the city’s Landbank Authority sells vacant and abandoned property.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/tag/land-bank/)
Some Louisville Metro Council members are calling for changes to how the city’s Landbank Authority sells vacant and abandoned property.
The Landbank Authority director will appear before the council’s Community Affairs and Housing Committee on Wednesday, three weeks after a report from the Kentucky Center for Investigating Reporting found nearly a third of the properties sold by the land bank since 2010 were vacant and in violation of the city’s property maintenance code.
“I grew up in the projects. This is the first house I’ve ever lived in my whole life. When you’re riding down Burnett Avenue, I want you to see the flowers and the solar lights.”
The land bank has sold 316 dilapidated properties for as low as $1 in a program designed to boost struggling neighborhoods. But at least 92 of them are vacant.