Blighted Cities Prefer Razing to Rebuilding (The New York Times)
BALTIMORE — Shivihah Smith’s East Baltimore neighborhood, where he lives with his mother and grandmother, is disappearing. The block one ...
Fake facades aren’t enough to cover Ohio’s abandoned home problems (WKSU)
Though many experts say the nation’s foreclosure crisis is waning, at least 100,000 abandoned homes remain in Ohio. Ohio Public ...
Cleveland suburbs let regionalism enter through the ‘back door’
October 7, 2013 [Thomas Ott, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Gus Frangos, president of the Cuyahoga Land Bank, calls ...
Massive demolition in the North Coventry community begins Wednesday
September 24, 2013 [Kelsey Leyva, WKSU] East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights are spending $1.1 million to remove blight in the ...
CLEVELAND’S TEARDOWN RUNAROUND
September 17, 2013 [Daniel McGraw, Belt Magazine] In addition to the 8,000 or so vacant housing units in bad shape ...
Shaker council puts up funding to rehab then sell one house, tear down 6 “public nuisances”
September 16, 2013 [Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com] SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The city continues its ongoing efforts to improve or remove ...
Cuyahoga Land Bank marks milestones in property renovation, demolition
September 16, 2013 [Robert Nozar, cleveland.com] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Not every Cuyahoga Land Bank property demolition is as notorious as ...
Fun Fact! Demolition and Renovation Milestones
The Cuyahoga Land Bank has demolished 2,000 properties and has helped facilitate close to 700 renovations since opening our doors ...
Houses around Ariel Castro’s Seymour Avenue home torn down
August 26, 2013 [WKYC] CLEVELAND -- Crews began demolishing the two houses on either side of Ariel Castro's former residence ...
Ohio shifts $60 million from foreclosure prevention to demolition (WKSU)
Ohio has been approved for $60 million to expand demolition of vacant houses. The U.S. Treasury Department gave the nod ...
Ariel Castro’s house to be demolished Wednesday; county to prevent rubble from being sold
August 26, 2013 [WKYC] CLEVELAND — The nonprofit responsible for the scheduled Wednesday demolition of the Cleveland house where three ...
Fixing Cleveland’s housing problem: Sandra Pianalto
August 9, 2013 [cleveland.com] The growing attention placed on clearing out or cleaning up vacant and abandoned properties in Greater ...
