Tribal Land Management
The Policy Research Center has just released a report entitled Exercising Sovereignty and Expanding Economic Opportunity Through Tribal Land Management. The report is the result of a joint project with First Nations Development Institute, funded by NeighborWorks America and Stewart Title.
While the United States faces one of the most significant housing crises in the nation's history, many forget that Indian housing has been in crisis for generations. This report seeks to take some important steps toward a future where safe, affordable, and decent housing is available to Native people in numbers sufficient to meet the housing needs that exist in Indian Country today.
The report provides first-of-its-kind analysis of a critical barrier to home ownership on Indian lands. It analyzes the success of tribes that have taken responsibility (in whole or in part) for administering the land title process on tribal lands. It also addresses the challenges those tribes have faced.