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Samanta R. Mykoo From: Chad Putman Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2021 10:04 PM To: Samanta R. Mykoo; John Mootooveren; Marion Porterfield Cc: Chad Putman; Jamaica Miles; Anita Thayer; Eleanor Pepper Subject: C Putman - Communication - Schdy City Council 9/27 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Samantha, Please accept and include the enclosed quote in its entirety into the communications presented to the Schenectady City Council on September 27, 2021. "My name is Chad Putman, city resident and state committee member of the Working Families Party. I stand in solidarity with All of Us and Black Lives Matter ‐ Justice Warriors. You may not agree with what was said or how it was said, but that's not the point, is it? When you swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States you made a commitment to protect our freedom of speech. Words and emotions may be offensive to you and those with privileged lives, however white supremacy, racist actions and blatant abuse of power is offensive to us. It's your loss if your conservative, delicate sensibilities are stuck on our words because it's our actions at the polls that will ultimately be your undoing. You either choose to help dismantle systemic racism and discrimination or you are complicit in sustaining inequity and inequality across this land." Thank you, ‐ Chad Putman 1 Samanta R. Mykoo From: epepper Sent: Friday, October 01, 2021 9:58 AM To: Karen ZalewskiWildzunas; Samanta R. Mykoo; 'Marion Porterfield'; Marion Porterfield; John Mootooveren; John Polimeni; Carmel Patrick Cc: ; Subject: FW: New Research Publication on Vacancy and Abandonment CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Good morning, With the upcoming plans for how to spend $53 million, I thought this research might be useful. Ellie Pepper Deputy Director National Housing Resource Center www.hsgcenter.org From: Rob Finn Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 5:52 PM To: Housing and Foreclosure <housing@lists.ourfinancialsecurity.org> Subject: New Research Publication on Vacancy and Abandonment Hello AFR coalition colleagues: Just wanted to share with you a new research publication featuring some familiar bylines, that the Center for Community Progress jointly produced with the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Cleveland. Please share with your networks, and in particular, with any stakeholders dealing with vacancy and abandonment in their communities. New Research Publication Launched: Tackling Vacancy and Abandonment: Strategies and Impacts after the Great Recession WASHINGTON, D.C. – Center for Community Progress announces the launch of Tackling Vacancy and Abandonment: Strategies and Impacts after the Great Recession, a research publication jointly produced with the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Cleveland. Community Progress is America’s leading nonprofit resource for urban, suburban, and rural communities seeking to equitably address the full cycle of property revitalization. More than 10 years have passed since the Great Recession and the residential foreclosure crisis it unleashed. This crisis caused millions of Americans to lose their homes, leaving many neighborhoods with concentrated vacancy, disinvestment, and erosion of their local social fabric. In the aftermath of this crisis, researchers, practitioners, and organizations like the Center for Community Progress set to work analyzing vacancy interventions and shaping redevelopment strategies to stabilize neighborhoods. 1 Lessons from the Great Recession can help us assess and manage vacancy and abandonment in the uncertain times we now face in the midst of the COVID‐19 crisis and its eventual aftermath. The pandemic has thrown existing inequities— particularly racial inequities—into stark relief, striking Black and Brown communities hardest in terms of both the impact of the disease and a shattered economic footing. Making the recovery from COVID‐19 inclusive and equitable will require community leaders to understand the strategies deployed to address the last crisis and their impacts. Tackling Vacancy and Abandonment: Strategies and Impacts After the Great Recession is a new edited volume that captures many of these efforts for practitioners, advocates, political leaders, and researchers looking to better understand the dynamics of vacancy and abandonment. It contains 12 articles by national experts in the field of neighborhood revitalization, including scholars from Georgia State University, the University of Michigan, the University of South Carolina School of Law, and the University of Utah, and practitioners from the Cuyahoga Land Bank, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Reinvestment Fund, Enterprise Community Partners, the National Community Stabilization Trust, and the Center for Community Progress. “We are proud to share this publication with the field, and hope that policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders value its insights around mitigating the negative effects of vacant and abandoned properties and promoting neighborhood revitalization,” said Akilah Watkins, president and CEO of Community Progress. “Given that the economic crisis spurred by the COVID‐19 pandemic has affected many of the same low‐income and predominately Black and Brown neighborhoods damaged by the foreclosure crisis, its lessons and outcomes are more relevant than ever to building an equitable and inclusive recovery.” Tackling Vacancy and Abandonment: Strategies and Impacts after the Great Recession contains the following articles: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Vacant Properties as a Public Issue by Alan Mallach The Battle of the Belts: Comparing Housing Vacancy in Larger Metros in the Sun Belt and the Rust Belt since the Mortgage Crisis, 2012 to 2019 by Austin Harrison and Dan Immergluck Detroit’s Tax Foreclosure Problem by Margaret Dewar People without Homes, Homes without People: Abandoned Properties as Opportunities for Affordable Housing in the Post‐Disaster Reconstruction Environment by Ivis García and Luis Gallardo Does a Nonprofit “First Look” Program Promote Neighborhood Stabilization? Examining Outcomes for REO Sales in Florida by Andrew Jakabovics and David Sanchez Developing and Implementing Property Remediation Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities in the Lehigh Valley: A Case Study of Bethlehem and Northampton County, Pennsylvania by Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation by Gus Frangos Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy in Law and Policy by Ann M. Eisenberg Land Banks and Community Land Trusts: Emerging Partners for a Resilient and Equitable Recovery by Kim Graziani Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low‐Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single‐Family Housing Needs by John O’Callaghan and Mandy Eidson Resident Engagement in Vacant Lot Greening: Empowering Communities for Neighborhood Revitalization by Laney A. Rupp, Alison R. Grodzinski, Evaine K. Sing, Bernadette C. Hohl, and Marc A. Zimmerman Next Steps by Frank S. Alexander 2 To download the publication in full, or any of its individual chapters, please visit https://communityprogress.org/publications/ccpfrbvolume/. ### ____________________________________ Robert E. Finn (he/him) Director of Policy and Research Center for Community Progress www.communityprogress.org Accepting Applications for the Land Bank Incubator Scholarship Program! Register Now for the National Land Bank Network Summit! Stay connected to Community Progress: Email List | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn ‐‐ To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to housing+unsubscribe@lists.ourfinancialsecurity.org. 3