Media Reports

Ohio Land Bank to Acquire HUD foreclosures for $100

July 2, 2010 [housingwire.com] The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp ...

HUD agrees to sell foreclosed houses to Cuyahoga County land bank

July 2, 2010 [Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The federal housing agency has agreed to offer the ...

Cuyahoga county land bank gets federal grant to assess brownfield sites

April 21, 2010 [Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cuyahoga County land bank has been awarded $400,000 ...

Cleveland, land bank and others get $41 million to demolish, rehab and improve neighborhoods

January 14, 2010 [Joan Mazzolini, The Plain Dealer] Cuyahoga County's new land bank, along with its partners, received nearly $41 ...

Sustainable neighborhoods through creative use of land banks

January 1, 2010 [Kevin J. Nowak, Ohio Planner's News] In February 2009, Governor Strickland signed into law S.B. 353, authorizing ...

Fannie Mae is dealing responsibly with foreclosed properties in Cuyahoga County – editorial

December 19, 2009 [The Plain Dealer] The unprecedented agreement just inked between the Cuyahoga County land bank and mortgage monolith ...

Fannie Mae and the new Cuyahoga County land bank forge unique agreement

July 29, 2020 [Gus Chan, Plain Dealer] The new Cuyahoga County land bank and Fannie Mae have forged a unique ...

HUD gives first dibs on low-value houses in Cleveland to the city and nonprofit groups

November 21, 2009 [Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer] HUD's Cleveland plan How it works: Properties valued at less than $20,000 ...

Complex finances to help get county land bank going

October 22, 2009 [Plain Dealer] Cuyahoga County plans to lend itself $20 million to help kick-start the fledgling land bank ...

Transforming abondoned properties into parks, housing may get easier

October 21, 2009 [Dayton Daily News] COLUMBUS — Montgomery County would get a new tool to transform vacant and abandoned ...

Cleveland should avoid investing too much in weaker neighborhoods, study finds

October 14, 2009 [Joe Guillen, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland’s limited resources should be poured into its strongest ...

Cuyahoga County land bank close to acquiring 1st properties, considers foreclosure-averting “better bank”

August 30, 2009 [Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer] Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis on his proposed "better bank": "If we ...