Reps Fudge, LaTourette Unviel Bill That Funds Demolition of Vacant Homes and Revitalizes Neighborhoods (Huffington Post)
Neighborhoods across America have been devastated by the foreclosure crisis and the homeowners who remain now find themselves in communities ...
Are Families Losing Homes Because They are Overvalued? (UPI.com)
Millions of homeowners have lost their homes to foreclosure because they owed more on them than they were worth. Now ...
US Reps unveil bipartisan legislation to fund demo of abandoned homes (WOIO)
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Conservative estimates claim there are 26,000 abandoned homes in Cuyahoga County and at least 15,000 are ...
Reps. Fudge, LaTourette to push bill to provide $4B for razing vacant properties (Crain’s Cleveland Business)
Two Northeast Ohio members of Congress said today they will introduce a bill this evening in the House of Representatives ...
Price drops driving real estae sales spike (Inman News)
Growth in home sales appears to be driven by the willingness of sellers to lower their prices rather than a ...
Overvaluating Residential Properties and the Growing Glut of REO (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Swelling REO inventories are the latest fallout of the housing crisis, costing lenders money and contributing to neighborhood blight. Yet ...
Move ahead with Stark land bank (Canton Repository)
The issue: Vacant buildings Our view: Board must adopt strong public records, public meetings policies Even if foreclosures magically stopped ...
Ending Land Speculation That Drives Blight: Change the System, Change the players (Huffington Post)
While many housing and community activists have long intuited that well-financed "vacant property speculators" were wreaking havoc in their communities ...
Elyria Council listens to land bank presentation (The Chronicle Telegram)
ELYRIA — City Council heard from an authority on land banking Monday with a presentation from former Cuyahoga County Treasurer ...
Beating down the blight: DeWine pledges state assistance (MarionStar.com)
State and local officials might have another solution to help with the problems of neighborhood blight, thanks to a multi-state ...
Land Bank to tackle vacant houses (Columbus Dispatch)
A multimillion-dollar plan to revitalize Franklin County neighborhoods by tearing down or rehabbing dilapidated structures is expected to launch next ...
Former Cuyahoga Treasurer Jim Rokakis pushes for federal demolition assistance (Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Money that Cleveland and its suburbs could get from the state for demolition would help, but proposed ...
