Omaha Municipal Land Bank

We’re Omaha Municipal Land Bank (OMLB), and our goal is simple: transform Omaha’s distressed properties into positive community assets. We will access and acquire houses deemed no longer livable and either redevelop or demolish and start anew. All 7,000 of them. It will take time, dedication and neighborhood participation, but opportunity will move in, one lot at a time, and it will be one of the best neighbors on the block.

Giving properties purpose.

Omaha is a proud and vibrant city but not without its challenges. Vacant, abandoned and tax-delinquent lots and properties litter its neighborhoods, resulting in fear, increased crime, depressed property values and loss of property taxes.

• More than 7,000 parcels in Omaha have some level of code violation
• More than 3,000 parcels have a demolition violation (700 structures have demolition orders)
• Nearly 4,000 have an "unfit/unsafe" designation
• More than half of all violations are concentrated in neighborhoods east of 42nd St. in North, South and Midtown Omaha

We are focused on three specific property categories:

• Those that impose the greatest harm to a community and, if acquired, could prevent greater abandonment.
• Those that impose the greatest likelihood of future harms to adjoining properties.
• Those that have an immediate end-user.

Calling all helping hands.

We’re moving opportunity into neighborhoods throughout Omaha, and we need your help (don’t worry, it doesn’t involve hauling furniture up three flights of stairs).

Donations of all levels are welcome and appreciated. Your donation will assist our efforts in one of four ways: acquisition (buying up properties for future renovation by businesses, individuals and nonprofits); demolition (leveling properties to make way for positive community assets); gardens (creating community spaces for healthy foods and healthy friendships to flourish); or operations (keeping our everyday costs — office supplies, printing, staffing, etc. — more manageable). Thank you.