Houston Land Bank

HLB is a local government corporation created by the City of Houston to strategically acquire, dispose, and steward vacant, abandoned, and damaged properties, to convey them into productive use, and to catalyze transformative community and economic development for the City of Houston. HLB has transformed more than $76 million worth of property over the past 15 years, helping to eliminate illegal dumping and blighted lots while generating millions of dollars in revenue to help improve our schools and local government services.  In 2019 alone, former HLB properties generated $1 million in revenue for better education and public services in Houston.  In addition, since 2004, HLB (formerly known as Land Assemblage & Redevelopment Authority “LARA”) has created sales and construction activity resulting in over 500 (and growing) new affordable homes for income-limited Houstonians.