News and Announcements

A coalition led by the Houston Land Bank (HLB) in partnership with the City of Houston and Avenue Community Development Corp. has been selected to receive a $600,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Brownfields Grant Program. 

HLB ended 2020 with a milestone land acquisition, buying 3.6 acres in Houston’s Near Northside. The purchase is the largest parcel acquired in HLB history and is expected to be followed with the subsequent acquisition of another contiguous 3.2 acres currently under an option contract. 

We just released a new 2020 Year-End Report, HLB’s first. To read our release, click here. To read the report, click here.

Earlier this year, Kizzy Jefferson closed on her first house. The newly finished three-bedroom, two-bathroom residence in Acre Homes, a historically Black neighborhood in Northwest Houston, sold for $75,000, less than a third of the city’s median single-family home price of $250,000. 

Two new mayoral appointees to the Houston Land Bank Board of Directors were confirmed by Houston City Council July 22 along with four additions to the inaugural class of HLB’s non-voting advisory board.