HUD, Cuyahoga Land Bank reach agreement to help keep blighted homes off market
February 15, 2013 [Pat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Officials at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...
Cleveland needs a plan for housing stock: editorial
February 5, 2013 [The Plain Dealer] A clear-eyed master plan to deal with the vacant and abandoned properties that crater ...
Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson calls for more vacant homes to renovated, not demolished (WEWS)
CLEVELAND - Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson says he believes more condemned homes can be saved and occupied by owners who ...
What to do with the vacant homes in Cleveland is a quandary
February 3, 2013 [Leila Atassi, cleveland.com] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- On a late-November afternoon, Cleveland City Councilman Jeffrey Johnson drove slowly ...
HUD abandons land bank deal — and good sense: editorial
December 22, 2012 [The Plain Dealer] The Department of Housing and Urban Development is back in the predatory flipping business ...
Cuyahoga Land Bank at the Ohio AG Demolition Grant Press Conference (Youtube)
The Ohio Attorney General distributed $11.8 million in matching funds ($6.8 million from the Land Bank, $5 million from the ...
How a Community Demolished Its Way Out of a Crisis (National Journal)
‘BURY THE DEAD’ Rokakis became an unlikely champion of demolition over rehabbing the abandoned houses. “By 2007, it became obvious ...
Partner Feature: Thriving Communities Institute/Western Reserve Land Conservancy
By: Jim Rokakis, Director and Vice President While S.B. 353 (passed in 2008) only allowed Cuyahoga County to establish a ...
Cuyahoga Land Bank To Host Ohio Land Banks Conference with Thriving Communities Institute-November 27th-28th
This November the Second Convening of Ohio County Land Banks, co-hosted by Thriving Communities Institute and the Cuyahoga Land Bank, ...
Cuyahoga County land bank appointees replace controversial members (Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald has appointed three new members to the county land bank's governing board, ...
County to host forum with land bank (Dayton Daily News)
XENIA — A county land bank could help wipe out severely damaged and abandoned homes in communities and increase property ...
Talk with the Boss: Gus Frangos, head of the Cuyahoga Land Bank
August 18, 2012 [Olivera Perkins, The Plain Dealer] Gus Frangos is president and general counsel of the Cuyahoga County Land ...
