Land Banking Case Studies: Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation
June 20, 2012 [Christina Harris, Metropolitan Planning Council] Cities and counties across the country and in our region are exploring ...
Mahoning Co. to get $1.5M from state to raze blight (The Vindicator)
YOUNGSTOWN Mahoning County is eligible to receive $1,531,680 from a state attorney general program for the demolition of blighted structures ...
Are Families Losing Homes Because They are Overvalued? (UPI.com)
Millions of homeowners have lost their homes to foreclosure because they owed more on them than they were worth. Now ...
Price drops driving real estae sales spike (Inman News)
Growth in home sales appears to be driven by the willingness of sellers to lower their prices rather than a ...
Overvaluating Residential Properties and the Growing Glut of REO (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Swelling REO inventories are the latest fallout of the housing crisis, costing lenders money and contributing to neighborhood blight. Yet ...
Move ahead with Stark land bank (Canton Repository)
The issue: Vacant buildings Our view: Board must adopt strong public records, public meetings policies Even if foreclosures magically stopped ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cuyahoga County facing $1.1 billion predicted reduction in property values (Housing Wire)
Cuyahoga County's tax base will shrink by more than $1 billion next year after the county reassesses property values — an ...
Cuyahoga home sales and home prices down angain this year: Sunday’s Numbers (Plain Dealer)
9,168: Number of single-family homes sold in Cuyahoga County, excluding sheriff's deeds, through October of 2011, down 10 percent from ...
Plan could help cities pay for blighted homes (Columbus Dispatch)
As part of an ongoing effort to wrestle with vacant and abandoned properties in Columbus, city officials will keep an ...
