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
#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."
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/beyond-frustrating-sheriff-s-office-problems-prevent-land-bank-from-buying-lots-for-community-gardens-houses/ar-AA1AB9qk
#ACAB #CommunityGardens #PublicBenefit
City Manager Sam Sanders provided an updated on efforts to create a homelessness intervention strategy and prepared Council for a big-ticket budget item to be announced in the near future.
Charlottesville City Council has agreed to pay a coalition of affordable housing providers to purchase the 6.46 acre property. There is an audio version of this post if you’d like to hear peo…
"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.
@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.
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