Blight and home abandonment now a persistent drag on Greater Cleveland’s economy: Brent Larkin
June 27, 2014 [Brent Larkin, cleveland.com] In a meeting with about 60 senior citizens at the Cleveland branch library in ...
New program offers homeless people in Cuyahoga County an opportunity to buy a home
April 17, 2014 [WKSU] Some homeless families in Cuyahoga County will soon have a path towards purchasing their own home ...
Land Banking Re-Imagined
Repurposing dilapidated properties takes creativity, and Lilah Zautner has plenty! As the former Director of Sustainability and Neighborhood Greening at ...
Forest City, Safeguard Properties join Cleveland nonprofits to rehab homes in Slavic Village (Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Slavic Village, the Cleveland neighborhood often called "ground zero" in the nation's foreclosure crisis, might become the ...
Welcoming Bobbi Reichtell
At first glance, it may not be obvious why Bobbi Reichtell, the new executive director of Campus District Inc., is ...
“The Way Government is Supposed to Work”
Party politics wasn't on anyone's agenda on December 7th, when Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine visited a Slavic Village demolition ...
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 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, ...
Housing experts warn a new wave of foreclosures threatens the Cleveland area
June 16, 2012 [Mark Gillispie, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The "shadow inventory" of homes that someday will likely ...
Making furniture out of torn-down houses keeps materials out of land fills
March 24, 2012 [Olivera Perkins, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An emerging movement in Cleveland sees an alternative to ...
Cleveland to use National Mortgage Settlement Money To Demolish Homes, Still Wants Banks To Pay (Huffington Post)
Funds meant to help struggling families in Cleveland are instead being used to knock down vacant and dilapidated homes left ...
HUD, Cuyahoga Land Bank Renew Ground Breaking Agreement (The Collinwood Observer)
In the Spring, 2010, HUD and the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, commonly known as the Cuyahoga Land Bank, forged ...
