Area land banks awarded $500,000 (Tribtoday.com)
WARREN - The Ohio Housing Finance Agency has awarded land banks in Trumbull and Mahoning counties $500,000 each. U.S. Rep ...
A Flower Farm Blooms From An Abandoned House In Detroit (Huffington Post)
DETROIT -- The ephemeral installation that filled an abandoned house with flowers last weekend was over before the blossoms had ...
$15M urban-agriculture plan to transform Detroit space (The Detroit News)
The Detroit News3:11 p.m. EDT October 26, 2015 A $15 million urban-agriculture project announced Monday is expected to transform 22 ...
Is local land bank best answer for blight? (Chillicothe Gazette)
CHILLICOTHE - Everyone's driven past them: once-new structures that are now only shadows of their former selves, abandoned, overgrown by weeds, sometimes ...
Blight blitz builds up Detroit property values (The Detroit News)
Home property values in Detroit are beginning to increase in areas where blight has been removed, according to a new ...
Today’s Land Bank Boom Could Lead to the Extinction of Land Banks (Next City)
Frank Alexander wasn’t expecting his book, Land Banks and Land Banking, to wind up so big.How the Zombie House Crisis Mutated ...
Survey of All Cleveland Properties Nearly Finished (WCPN)
by Nick Castele A survey of every property in the city of Cleveland is nearing completion. The project will take ...
Fairfield County Land Bank Begins Demolitions (Lancaster Eagle Gazette)
LANCASTER — For the first time since its creation two years ago, the Fairfield County land bank has begun demolishing ...
Land Banks and Land Banking-The second edition by the Center for Community Progress
The Center for Community Progress recently released its second publication that discusses new research and resources for land banks to ...
Today’s Land Bank Boom Could Lead to the Extinction of Land Banks (Nextcity.org)
Frank Alexander wasn’t expecting his book, Land Banks and Land Banking, to wind up so big. “In 2010, when we ...
Help Detroit Land Bank keep the progress going (Detroit Free Press)
The Detroit City Council recently approved the transfer of more than 37,000 city-owned residential properties to the Detroit Land Bank ...
Baltimore Grapples With Blight Quandary (Wall Street Journal)
BALTIMORE—In 2011, the city sold a vacant row house in East Baltimore’s Oliver neighborhood to a developer who promised to ...
