Cleveland to use National Mortgage Settlement Money To Demolish Homes, Still Wants Banks To Pay (Huffington Post)
Funds meant to help struggling families in Cleveland are instead being used to knock down vacant and dilapidated homes left ...
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 ...
Cuyahoga Land Bank partners with The International Services Center to Create a home for refugees
January 12, 2012 [Katherine Bulava, Lakewood Observer] The Cuyahoga County Land Bank has partnered with the International Services Center (ISC) ...
HUD, Cuyahoga Land Bank Renew Ground Breaking Agreement
January 4, 2012 [Katherine Bulava, Parma Observer] During Spring, 2010, HUD and the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, commonly known ...
Occupy Cleveland Witnesses a Crime (You Tube)
Uploaded on Dec 15, 2011 Ashtabula County Sheriff William Johnson forecloses on the home of Christine Cart in Orwell, Ohio, ...
Discovering Home, A new beginning (Youtube)
The Cuyahoga Land Bank and the International Services Center (ISC) are partnering to create The Discovering Home Program: A New ...
Homesteading plan to offer abandoned homes to refugees
December 13, 2011 [Robert L. Smith, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Within the collection of abandoned houses haunting the ...
Cleveland Resettlement Agency and Land Bank Pair Refugee Families with Vacant Homes (Friends of Refugees)
Cleveland’s International Services Center (ISC) will work with the Cuyahoga County land bank in a joint effort, called The Discovering Home Program, ...
A Berea abandoned home site becomes community garden
December 8, 2011 [Joanne Berger DuMound, cleveland.com.] BEREA -- An abandoned Runn Street house will become a home for a ...
In Euclid, Blight Becomes Might
Land banks exist to prevent blight and save neighborhoods, and one of their most effective tactics is buying multiple properties, ...
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Demolishes Homes to Remove Blight
November 1, 2011 [Caroline Cournoyer, Governing] Years ago, when home foreclosures left properties neglected, cities would often pay to have ...
How the government can solve the housing crisis (CNN Opinion)
(CNN) -- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration own about 250,000 foreclosed properties awaiting resale. Hundreds of ...
