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, ...
Children’s Museum of Cleveland gains control of Euclid Avenue mansion in $50,000 deal
December 9, 2014 [Michelle Jarboe, The Plain Dealer] A quiet real estate deal that closed Tuesday augurs a second chance ...
Advice for land banks from Cuyahoga Land Bank’s Gus Frangos
November 24, 2014 [Center for Community Progress] Our new report, Take it to the Bank: How Land Banks Are Strengthening America’s ...
Fannie Mae selling 44 homes to Detroit Land Bank (Detroit Free Press)
Fannie Mae, the national leader in providing money for the secondary mortgage market, said today it will sell 44 Detroit ...
Cities Resort to Demolition to Deal With Blight
November 18, 2014 [Mike Wheatly, Realty Biz News] A deconstruction movement is brewing across U.S. cities, in an effort to ...
Why this city ‘removes cancer cells’ of foreclosed and abandoned homes
November 18, 2014 [CNN Wire] In and around Cleveland, nearly 6,000 foreclosed and abandoned homes are being destroyed in an ...
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 ...
Cleveland gets noticed for bringing new life to abandoned homes, lots (Crain’s Cleveland Business)
Cleveland is doing a better job than most cities at figuring out new, more productive uses for abandoned lots and ...
Cleveland’s plan to destroy nearly 6,000 homes
November 13, 2014 [Les Cristie, CNN Money] In and around Cleveland, nearly 6,000 foreclosed and abandoned homes are being destroyed ...
Cuyahoga County now the ‘gold standard’ for abandoned property reclamation
November 11, 2014 [Erin O'Brien, Freshwater Cleveland] Some of the most significant strides in Cleveland's renaissance come from the quietest ...
Cuyahoga County’s $50 million demolition plan looking to impact communities
November 7, 2014 [Andrew Cass, The News-Herald] “What we do today is not the end of the process, it’s really ...
$50M demolition fund passes Cuyahoga County Council unanimously
October 29, 2014 [Erick Trickey, Cleveland Magazine Politics] Cuyahoga County will soon give cities tens of millions of dollars to ...
