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Banks turn to demolition of foreclosed properties to ease housing-market pressures

October 13, 2011 [Brady Dennis]Cleveland — The sight of excavators tearing down vacant buildings has become common in this foreclosure-ravaged ...

Mayors, city managers discuss possible county land bank

September 26, 2011 [The News Herald] Former Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis spoke to the Lake County Mayors and City ...
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Cuyahoga Land Bank Makes National News!

The Cuyahoga Land Bank has recently been featured in the national press for our work capturing foreclosed, vacant properties and ...

Land Bank knocks out some foreclosure problems

August 29, 2011 [Mhari Saito, NPR] Cities have been tearing down crumbling, vacant houses for decades. The money for municipal ...

One Solution to Rundown Foreclosed Houses? Bulldoze Them

August 17, 2011 [Alter NOW] Several banks have found a new solution to the glut of foreclosed houses – many ...

Bulldoze: The New way to Foreclose

August 1, 2011 [Stephen Gandel, TIME] Banks have a new remedy for America’s ailing housing market: bulldozers. There are nearly ...

Hit with foreclosures, Bank of America donating, demolishing homes

July 28, 2011 [Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg News] NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp., faced with a glut of foreclosed ...

BofA donates then demolishes houses to cut glut of foreclosures

July 27, 2011 [Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg News] Bank of America Corp. (BAC), faced with a glut of foreclosed and abandoned ...
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Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation – The Beginning, The Present, and Beyond, 2009-2011

In the two years since its formation as a tool to battle the foreclosure crisis, the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization ...

Examination of Cleveland-area land bank shows hope for area properties

July 10, 2011 [Dayton Daily News] Vacant and abandoned properties emerging from Ohio’s foreclosure meltdown threaten to overtake entire city ...

Wells Fargo, Bank of America donating properties to Cuyahoga Land Bank (Collinwood Observer)

The Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (Cuyahoga Land Bank) has gained some welcome collaboration in the battle to alleviate the ...

Wells Fargo, Bank of America donate properties to Ohio Land Bank

June 30, 2011 [DSNews.com] Wells Fargo and Bank of America recently joined Fannie Mae, HUD, and JP Morgan Chase as ...