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WM looks to reutilization program (Troy Daily News)

By: Cecelia Fox, Troy Daily News WEST MILTON — Faced with a growing number of abandoned properties, the village of ...

Land banks can offer pathway to homeownership: Matt Martin, Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership (Cleveland.com)

By Matt Martin, Trumbull County Partnership on Cleveland.com Decades of disinvestment and job loss, suburban sprawl, and more recently the ...

Commissioners take first steps towards land bank (Portsmouth Daily Times)

By: Wayne Allen, Portsmouth Daily Times Recently, the Scioto County Commissioners acted on a couple of measures aimed at improving ...

Ohio City, Knez Homes team up to offer quicker new construction on Cleveland land-bank lots (Cleveland.com)

By: Michelle Jarboe, Cleveland.com A homebuilding program set to launch next month in Ohio City aims to make new construction ...

County land bank moves closer to reality (Sidney Daily News)

By Staff, Sidney Daily News SIDNEY — The Shelby County Commissioner’s meeting room was crowded with representatives of townships, villages ...

Tree farms coming to vacant lots in St. Louis (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

By: Leah Thorsen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Forty-two vacant lots in St. Louis will become tree farms, urban agriculture and green ...

Land bank, closer to reality (Portsmouth Daily Times)

By: Wayne Allen, Portsmouth Daily Times An organizational meeting of what will be the Scioto County Land Bank Board of ...

House Urban Affairs Committee positions Caltagirone anti-blight bills for House vote (BCTV)

by House Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas Caltagirone HARRISBURG, March 15 – Democratic House Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas Caltagirone, D-Berks, ...

Cadillac Receives Grant to Fight Urban Blight (MINews26)

By MINews26 Several condemned buildings and another obsolete eyesore in Cadillac will be torn down with help from the Michigan ...

Council OKs community garden incentives (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

By David Garrick, The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — Aiming to boost access to healthy food while sprucing up blighted ...

Omaha Municipal Land Bank picks interim leader, starts lining up properties (Omaha.com)

By Chris Burbach, Omaha.com The Omaha Municipal Land Bank Board named an interim executive director Monday and took a step ...

Program works to remove blighted properties in cities (Star Beacon)

By Mark Todd, Star Beacon CONNEAUT — Bucking tradition, government officials gathered Monday morning in Conneaut to celebrate a building's ...