revitalization

Upstate New York Cities to Illuminate Blight (Next City)

By Jen Kinney, Next City Public art installations in Albany, Schenectady and Troy will illuminate hundreds of vacant buildings across ...

Today’s Land Bank Boom Could Lead to the Extinction of Land Banks (Next City)

Frank Alexander wasn’t expecting his book, Land Banks and Land Banking, to wind up so big.How the Zombie House Crisis Mutated ...

Slavic Village on the road to recovery (WOIO)

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Slavic Village Recovery (SVR) says two completely renovated properties have been sold and are homes to proud ...

Mission Complete: Purple Heart Homes will hold ceremony for local veteran who got a refurbished home

February 28, 2014 [WEWS] SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio - Purple Heart homes will hold a Mission Complete Ceremony to welcome U.S ...

North Coventry demolitions are the first step in neighborhood revitalization efforts

September 27, 2013 [Katherine Bulava, Heights Observer] On Sept. 25, officials from the Cuyahoga Land Bank and the cities of ...

Massive demolition in the North Coventry community begins Wednesday

September 24, 2013 [Kelsey Leyva, WKSU] East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights are spending $1.1 million to remove blight in the ...

Homebuyers in Cleveland can get $15,000 toward down payment (Plain Dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio --  Homebuyers in the City of Cleveland may qualify for $15,000 in down payment assistance funding resulting from ...

Land bank offers hope (Star Beacon)

Commissioners see this as way to end plague of abandoned properties JEFFERSON — Ashtabula County is in the process of ...

A tough-love report from the Lincoln Institute ranks Cleveland 15th on list of 18 ‘legacy cities’ (Plain Dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It’s a love letter to aging industrial cities such as Cleveland, and a stark reality check in ...

Flexibility needed to fix blight: editorial (Plain Dealer)

To demo or not to demo? When it comes to neighborhoods full of vacant and abandoned homes, that is not ...

Detroit Survival Depends of Speed of Destruction

May 30, 2013 [Jeff Green and Prashant Gopal, Bloomberg] William Pulte says the only way to truly save Detroit and get the ...