Reclaiming Vacant Properties
In late September, a few Cuyahoga Land Bank staff members traveled to Baltimore, Maryland for the Center for Community Progress ...
South Euclid rehabs houses, offers tax breaks, tamps down on delinquencies: What programs could help you?
January 9, 2015 [Sara Dorn, cleveland.com] In South Euclid, vacant properties signal opportunity. In an effort to stop foreclosed houses ...
How the Cuyahoga Land Bank is helping refugees “Discover Home”
December 18, 2014 [Center for Community Progress] Land banks can work in concert with a whole host of private, public, ...
Cuyahoga County Land Bank Featured in National Study
December 10, 2014 [Campus District Observer] Land banks’ adaptability yields results for communities tackling vacant and problem properties, according to ...
Board of Omaha Land Bank has plenty of work to do before it can begin buying run-down properties for redevelopment (Omaha.com)
The board of the newly created Omaha Municipal Land Bank expects to begin acquiring run-down properties in 2015 for redevelopment, ...
Cuyahoga County Land Bank featured in national report
December 3, 2014 [Cleveland.com] The county land bank was featured positively in a recent report from the Center for Community ...
Macon-Bibb land bank recognized as conduit for revitalization
November 21, 2014 [Macon Telegraph] A national nonprofit focused on combating blight is highlighting work from the Macon-Bibb Land Bank ...
Land banks’ adaptability yields results for communities tackling vacant and problem properties, according to report
Cuyahoga Land Bank featured as one of seven portraits WASHINGTON, D.C. – An estimated 120 land banks exist in the ...
Abandoned Homes Plague Cities: It Takes Money to Level Them (USA Today)
Some local governments hardest hit by population losses are struggling with what has been left behind: large numbers of abandoned ...
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 ...
Land Bank’s Reasearch, Funding Skills Win Fans in the Motor City
When the Center for Community Progress drew up its agenda for Land Bank Conference 2011 in Detroit, planners knew they ...