Lorain County eyes land bank; Ritenauer, Brinda hope to stop blight of foreclosed homes (The Morning Journal)
LORAIN — Lorain and Elyria’s new mayors hope a land bank program can counter foreclosures and vacant properties. Meanwhile, a ...
Cities seek help to bulldoze homes (Columbus Dispatch)
Ohio has more than 70,000 vacant and abandoned houses, and its cities don’t have the money to raze even the ...
Brown calls for end to free pass for banks that abandon foreclosed homes (Insurance News)
CLEVELAND, Jan. 3 -- The office of Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has issued the following news release: After a bureau ...
Stark County lays groundwork for land banking (Akron Beacon Journal)
CANTON: If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you will keep getting what you always got. For this reason, ...
Cleveland Disassembles Itself in Face of Property-Value Plunge
December 21, 2011 [Mark Niquette, Bloomberg] Demolition contractor Craig Crawford has a foundation-level view of Cleveland’s housing market, and he ...
There goes the Neigborhood (60 Minutes)
Pelley: You know there are lots of people all over the country. Many thousands of people who are mailing the ...
Land bank would target vacant homes (Middletown Journal)
Plan supporters looking for way to deal with increase in foreclosures. The idea to create a public land bank in ...
Default surge will weaken the housing market
December 14, 2011 [Middletown Journal] A rise in month-to-month foreclosure actions may herald more foreclosures in the new year. RealtyTrac, ...
County land bank concept alive and well in northeast Ohio
December 8, 2011 [Tim Rudell, WKSU] Since 2008 the nonprofit Cuyahoga County land bank has handled over a thousand abandoned ...
Summit County to launch land bank program (Akron Beacon Journal)
Summit County plans to start a land-bank program to help deal with vacant and abandoned properties. Under legislation being introduced ...
Experts believe condemned houses now affecting all northeast Ohio home values (WEWS)
CLEVELAND - Northeast Ohio housing experts are keenly aware the aftermath of the housing crisis is far from giving our ...
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 ...
