Lake County takes first steps toward creating Land Bank (Plain Dealer)
The Lake County Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution Thursday that represents a first step toward creating a county land bank ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
