Homesteading plan to offer abandoned homes to refugees
December 13, 2011 [Robert L. Smith, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Within the collection of abandoned houses haunting the ...
Northeast Ohio organizations plan to offer abandoned homes to immigrants
December 13, 2011 [WEWS] CLEVELAND - Several organizations are coming together to combat a major and costly problem in northeast ...
Occupy Cleveland will probably focus on foreclosure crisis (Plain Dealer)
Occupy Cleveland might be looking for a new home -- a foreclosed one. The group's tent is likely to remain ...
Cuyahoga County nonprofit, HUD renew property transfer agreement
December 9, 2011 [Stan Bullard, Crain's Cleveland Business] The Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp., a nonprofit that handles revitalizing foreclosed ...
A Berea abandoned home site becomes community garden
December 8, 2011 [Joanne Berger DuMound, cleveland.com.] BEREA -- An abandoned Runn Street house will become a home for a ...
County land bank concept alive and well in northeast Ohio
December 8, 2011 [Tim Rudell, WKSU] Since 2008 the nonprofit Cuyahoga County land bank has handled over a thousand abandoned ...
Common Pleas Court judge rejects most of Cleveland’s suit against banks over subprime loans (Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cuyahoga County judge has dismissed most of a 2008 public nuisance lawsuit Cleveland officials filed against ...
Cuyahoga County facing $1.1 billion predicted reduction in property values (Housing Wire)
Cuyahoga County's tax base will shrink by more than $1 billion next year after the county reassesses property values — an ...
Akron: Land bank to target abandoned homes
December 4, 2011 [WKYC] AKRON -- There's one on just about every street in Summit County. In some cases there ...
Relief from the disaster
December 4, 2011 [Akron Beacon Journal] Summit County officials have noodled the idea of a land bank for months since ...
Summit County to launch land bank program (Akron Beacon Journal)
Summit County plans to start a land-bank program to help deal with vacant and abandoned properties. Under legislation being introduced ...
Lakewood: The Community of Choice
December 1, 2011 [Chris Perry, Lakewood Observer] I recently went to hear what ‘the smartest guys in the room’ had ...
