Ohio will get millions more to fight blight and foreclosures (Plain Dealer)
February 19, 2016 [Stephen Koff, cleveland.com] WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department announced Friday that Ohio will get another $96.6 million ...
Ohfa Broadens Program to Tackle Blight and Fight Foreclosure, Awards $13 Million to 12 Counties (Ohfa)
November 3, 2015 [OHFA] COLUMBUS – The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) today announced the recipients of additional funding under ...
Area land banks awarded $500,000 (Tribtoday.com)
WARREN - The Ohio Housing Finance Agency has awarded land banks in Trumbull and Mahoning counties $500,000 each. U.S. Rep ...
What exactly is a land bank? Glossary for The House Next Door (cleveland.com)
Confused about how exactly foreclosure works, or what a land bank does? No worries. Northeast Ohio Media Group assembled a ...
Group begins counting every abandoned property in Cleveland by walking every street in the city: Mark Naymik (Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Jeremy Taylor and Jimmy Brookins are getting to know the streets of Cleveland better than most of ...
Fannie Mae selling 44 homes to Detroit Land Bank (Detroit Free Press)
Fannie Mae, the national leader in providing money for the secondary mortgage market, said today it will sell 44 Detroit ...
$50M demolition fund passes Cuyahoga County Council unanimously
October 29, 2014 [Erick Trickey, Cleveland Magazine Politics] Cuyahoga County will soon give cities tens of millions of dollars to ...
HUD, Cuyahoga Land Bank Renew Agreement – The Only One of its Kind in the US
In 2010, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, commonly known ...
Hardest Hit Funds demolition policy change on track to become a boon for distressed communities (Community Progress)
In February 2010, President Obama unveiled the Hardest Hit Fund, a United States Treasury program to use Troubled Asset Relief ...
Cuyahoga Land Bank hits 3 milestones in its mission to reduce blight and increase property values
April 23, 2014 [WEWS] CLEVELAND - The Cuyahoga Land Bank hit three milestones as part of its mission to acquire ...
Detroit Is Auctioning Off Incredible Old Homes For $1,000, But There’s A Big Catch (Huffington Post)
Want to buy an incredibly cheap house in Detroit? You're in luck -- just make sure you read the fine ...
FitzGerald must deliver on proposed $50 million for blight fight to help ease tax burden on ‘burbs: editorial
March 31, 2014 [The Plain Dealer] The subprime loan scandal that brought on the Great Recession more than six years ...
