Selected Publications

  • Cover of Filling the Gap case study

    Filling the Gap and Leading the Change: The Kendall-Whittier Neighborhood Trust | Purpose Built Communities (January 2025) with Jeana Dunlap

  • Georgia Real Estate Finance and Foreclosure Law, 2024-2025 Ed. | Thomson West (2024) with Frank S. Alexander & Sarah Bolling-Mancini

  • Prosperity in Place case study cover

    Prosperity in Place: Focused Community Strategies Rotational Capital Fund 2009-2023 | Purpose Built Communities (December 2023)

  • Cover of Resource Guide for Georgia Land Banks

    Resource Guide for Georgia Land Banks | Center for Community Progress (2022) with Allie Jett

  • Cover of USDA publication

    Heirs’ Property and Land Fractionation: Fostering Stable Ownership to Prevent Land Loss and Abandonment | USDA (2019) with Cassandra J. Gaither, Ann Carpenter, & Tracy Lloyd McCurty

  • Cover of report on delinquent property tax enforcement in West Virginia

    What Does the Sale of Property Tax Debt Mean for West Virginia Communities? | Center for Community Progress (2017)

“This process has been an example of doing policy with those most impacted . . . rather than doing policy to those most impacted,”

— Sara, quoted in West Virginia Tackles Vacancy With Tax Reform, by Lara Heard, in Shelterforce (September 22, 2023)