American Rescue Plan Act Funding

"We're taking these [properties] and viewing them as opportunities."

The land bank will use the money to save roughly a dozen properties on Broome County’s tax foreclosure list.

“We had one call, [the dispatcher called] 23 agencies, and no ambulance was available. To the point where the dispatcher called the house back and said, ‘We’ve got nothing. You have to find your own way to the hospital.’"