Lake County land bank gains traction (The News-Herald)
Lake County leaders are looking to create a county land bank to help deal with foreclosed and abandoned properties. County ...
Reps Fudge, LaTourette Unviel Bill That Funds Demolition of Vacant Homes and Revitalizes Neighborhoods (Huffington Post)
Neighborhoods across America have been devastated by the foreclosure crisis and the homeowners who remain now find themselves in communities ...
Elyria Council listens to land bank presentation (The Chronicle Telegram)
ELYRIA — City Council heard from an authority on land banking Monday with a presentation from former Cuyahoga County Treasurer ...
Former Cuyahoga Treasurer Jim Rokakis pushes for federal demolition assistance (Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Money that Cleveland and its suburbs could get from the state for demolition would help, but proposed ...
Foreclosure Deal May Help State Budgets (Bloomberg)
Wisconsin (STOWI1) plans to use part of its $140 million share of the national foreclosure settlement to fill a budget ...
Raze the Roof (Crain’s Cleveland Business)
Ohio is one of the focal points of this Bloomberg story that looks at how states plan to use their ...
Lorain Council backs land bank idea (The Morning Journal)
LORAIN — City Council’s Federal Programs Committee recommends a resolution supporting a land reutilization corporation, or land bank, for Lorain ...
Lack of land bank may impact funding for Butler County
February 13, 2012 [Middletown Journal] Butler County is at a disadvantage to receive demolition money from the newly reached multi-state ...
Lorain hopes for part of $75 million demolition money (The Morning Journal)
LORAIN — Mayor Chase Ritenauer said he is hopeful Lorain can get a part of the $75 million Ohio will ...
Putting Ohio’s predatory lender settlement demolition is smart: editorial
February 10, 2012 [The Plain Dealer] The average home in Cleveland is on the market for 954 days before it ...
Communities are going into rehab (WKSU)
A dozen new county-wide land banks are up and running in Ohio. They are to help deal with a problem growing ...
Former County Treasurer Jim Rokakis works to create land banks (Freshwater Cleveland)
Former County Treasurer Jim Rokakis, who prophesied Ohio's foreclosure crisis as early as 2000 and was a prime mover behind ...
