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Partner Feature: Thriving Communities Institute/Western Reserve Land Conservancy

By: Jim Rokakis, Director and Vice President While S.B. 353 (passed in 2008) only allowed Cuyahoga County to establish a ...
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Cuyahoga Land Bank To Host Ohio Land Banks Conference with Thriving Communities Institute-November 27th-28th

This November the Second Convening of Ohio County Land Banks, co-hosted by Thriving Communities Institute and the Cuyahoga Land Bank, ...

County to host forum with land bank (Dayton Daily News)

XENIA — A county land bank could help wipe out severely damaged and abandoned homes in communities and increase property ...

County plans land bank for vacant properties

May 24, 2012 [Akron.com] DOWNTOWN AKRON — Summit County is on its way to creating a land bank that will ...

Land Banks: Moving foreclosed properties back to productive use

April 26, 2012 [The News-Herald] The vacant bungalow at 1752 E. 228th St. in Euclid likely won’t be a typical ...

County moves toward establishing a land bank (Gazette News)

LAKE COUNTY – While not as devastated by foreclosures and abandoned properties as Cuyahoga County, Lake County officials and residents have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former County Treasurer Jim Rokakis works to create land banks (Freshwater Cleveland)

Former County Treasurer Jim Rokakis, who prophesied Ohio's foreclosure crisis as early as 2000 and was a prime mover behind ...

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 ...