Foreclosure Deal May Help State Budgets (Bloomberg)
Wisconsin (STOWI1) plans to use part of its $140 million share of the national foreclosure settlement to fill a budget ...
Raze the Roof (Crain’s Cleveland Business)
Ohio is one of the focal points of this Bloomberg story that looks at how states plan to use their ...
Lorain Council backs land bank idea (The Morning Journal)
LORAIN — City Council’s Federal Programs Committee recommends a resolution supporting a land reutilization corporation, or land bank, for Lorain ...
Lorain hopes for part of $75 million demolition money (The Morning Journal)
LORAIN — Mayor Chase Ritenauer said he is hopeful Lorain can get a part of the $75 million Ohio will ...
New report on Cleveland housing market (WEWS)
CLEVELAND - U.S. home prices fell for a third straight month. The declines show that most homeowners are not reaping ...
Communities are going into rehab (WKSU)
A dozen new county-wide land banks are up and running in Ohio. They are to help deal with a problem growing ...
Former County Treasurer Jim Rokakis works to create land banks (Freshwater Cleveland)
Former County Treasurer Jim Rokakis, who prophesied Ohio's foreclosure crisis as early as 2000 and was a prime mover behind ...
City to Offer Property Owners Vacant Lots for $100 Plus Other Costs (Cleveland Heights Patch)
Cleveland Heights owns several vacant, residential lots around the city. And that number is only going to grow as more ...
Lorain County eyes land bank; Ritenauer, Brinda hope to stop blight of foreclosed homes (The Morning Journal)
LORAIN — Lorain and Elyria’s new mayors hope a land bank program can counter foreclosures and vacant properties. Meanwhile, a ...
Cities seek help to bulldoze homes (Columbus Dispatch)
Ohio has more than 70,000 vacant and abandoned houses, and its cities don’t have the money to raze even the ...
Talks start on land bank details (Cincinnati.com)
By the end of the year, Hamilton County and the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority will likely be working ...
Brown calls for end to free pass for banks that abandon foreclosed homes (Insurance News)
CLEVELAND, Jan. 3 -- The office of Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has issued the following news release: After a bureau ...
