The City of San Marcos Workforce Housing Task Force will hold a public meeting on land banks on Thursday.
The Chairman of the Houston Land Bank Nick Hall will speak at the meeting held from 6-7:30 p.m. at the San Marcos Activity Center, 501 E. Hopkins St.
The Workforce Housing Task Force has indentified land banks as a potential tool to use as a part of the Strategic Housing Action Plan to address housing challenges in San Marcos. Land banks allow for the transition of vacant or underutilized properties into housing for the community.
Hall is an expert in land banks and will present and answer questions about this housing affordability tool. Hall’s history includes devising a strategy to transform Houston’s Land Assemblage Redevelopment Authority into the Houston Land Bank, making it a city-wide authority in community revitalization with a mission to strategically acquire and develop vacant, abandoned and storm-damaged properties into productive use to catalyze transformative community development.
