Reps Fudge, LaTourette Unviel Bill That Funds Demolition of Vacant Homes and Revitalizes Neighborhoods (Huffington Post)
Neighborhoods across America have been devastated by the foreclosure crisis and the homeowners who remain now find themselves in communities ...
Land Bank to tackle vacant houses (Columbus Dispatch)
A multimillion-dollar plan to revitalize Franklin County neighborhoods by tearing down or rehabbing dilapidated structures is expected to launch next ...
Former Cuyahoga Treasurer Jim Rokakis pushes for federal demolition assistance (Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Money that Cleveland and its suburbs could get from the state for demolition would help, but proposed ...
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 ...
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 ...
County Council approves temp budget for BOE (West Side Leader)
DOWNTOWN AKRON — The Summit County Board of Elections (BOE) will receive funding for three months as county officials try ...
Occupy Cleveland will probably focus on foreclosure crisis (Plain Dealer)
Occupy Cleveland might be looking for a new home -- a foreclosed one. The group's tent is likely to remain ...
Akron: Land bank to target abandoned homes
December 4, 2011 [WKYC] AKRON -- There's one on just about every street in Summit County. In some cases there ...
Relief from the disaster
December 4, 2011 [Akron Beacon Journal] Summit County officials have noodled the idea of a land bank for months since ...
Cuyahoga Land Bank upgrades its website
November 22, 2011 [Sun News] The Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (Cuyahoga Land Bank) has restructured and improved its website, ...
Investing in change: County Treasurer’s idea to stabilize property-tax collections is worthy (Columbus Dispatch)
A proposal by Franklin County Treasurer Ed Leonard to set up a nonprofit corporation that could rapidly acquire, fix up ...
