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Thriving Communities Property Survey Battles Urban Decay

This past summer, the nonprofit Thriving Communities Institute (TCI), a program of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy in collaboration with ...

Plans for Greater Cleveland Fisher House rounding third

February 5, 2015 [Brian Albrecht, The Plain Dealer] The more than four-year effort to create a place where veterans and ...

Blight and home abandonment now a persistent drag on Greater Cleveland’s economy: Brent Larkin

June 27, 2014 [Brent Larkin, cleveland.com] In a meeting with about 60 senior citizens at the Cleveland branch library in ...

Cleveland City Council study confirms what neighbors say they already knew

February 11, 2014 [WEWS] CLEVELAND - A study released to Cleveland City Council on Tuesday finds that demolition leads to ...

Groundbreaking on urban agriculture farm in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood

August 22, 2012 [WEWS] CLEVELAND - A vacant plot of land is well on its way to becoming something useful ...

Cleveland needs a plan for housing stock: editorial

February 5, 2013 [The Plain Dealer] A clear-eyed master plan to deal with the vacant and abandoned properties that crater ...

Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson calls for more vacant homes to renovated, not demolished (WEWS)

CLEVELAND - Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson says he believes more condemned homes can be saved and occupied by owners who ...

What to do with the vacant homes in Cleveland is a quandary

February 3, 2013 [Leila Atassi, cleveland.com] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- On a late-November afternoon, Cleveland City Councilman Jeffrey Johnson drove slowly ...

Cleveland’s glut of vacant housing could cost billions to eliminate at current pace (Plain Dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio — At the current pace and without new funding sources, it would take more than 22 years and ...