Neighborhood Progress

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 ...

HUD, Cuyahoga Land Bank Renew Ground Breaking Agreement

January 4, 2012 [Katherine Bulava, Parma Observer] During Spring, 2010, HUD and the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, commonly known ...

Cuyahoga County nonprofit, HUD renew property transfer agreement

December 9, 2011 [Stan Bullard, Crain's Cleveland Business] The Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp., a nonprofit that handles revitalizing foreclosed ...

BofA donates then demolishes houses to cut glut of foreclosures

July 27, 2011 [Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg News] Bank of America Corp. (BAC), faced with a glut of foreclosed and abandoned ...

Examination of Cleveland-area land bank shows hope for area properties

July 10, 2011 [Dayton Daily News] Vacant and abandoned properties emerging from Ohio’s foreclosure meltdown threaten to overtake entire city ...

Raze the Roof: Cleveland levels vacant homes to revive neighborhoods

July 5, 2011 [PBS NewsHour] GWEN IFILL: Next, taking desperate measures in Cleveland to deal with a massive foreclosure problem ...

Green infrastructure advocates get hands dirty

April 18, 2011 [Kathy Ames Karr, Crain's Cleveland Business] Each year, billions of gallons of raw, untreated sewage spill into ...

Fannie Mae and the new Cuyahoga County land bank forge unique agreement

July 29, 2020 [Gus Chan, Plain Dealer] The new Cuyahoga County land bank and Fannie Mae have forged a unique ...

Cuyahoga County Land bank could launch Cleveland renewal

May 19, 2009 [Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer] Marvin Fong/The Plain DealerEarth Day Coalition volunteer Josh Koppen plants native grasses ...

If you lived here, you’d be home already

May 6, 2009 [Dan Harkins, SCENE] Drive east out of downtown Cleveland, and it's just a few minutes before you ...