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Public commenter urges DeKalb land bank and property‑tax protections to shield long‑time homeowners from gentrification
Summary
At the Oct. 7 meeting, a speaker urged the county to create a land bank to acquire abandoned properties and proposed a property‑tax freeze for long‑term, low‑income homeowners to limit displacement amid neighborhood change; commissioners later recommended transferring surplus county properties to a land bank for study.
Steven Binney, a resident who addressed the board Oct. 7, urged the county to adopt a land bank to acquire blighted or tax‑delinquent properties and convert them into affordable homeownership opportunities. Binney warned that gentrification in parts of south and central DeKalb could accelerate property‑tax increases and displace long‑term, low‑income residents.
Binney recommended two parallel approaches: (1)…
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