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Cuyahoga Land Bank searches for alternatives: Expiring contract with HUD could mean no more $100 homes

December 26, 2012 [Kabir Bhatia, WKSU] The Cuyahoga County Land Bank is looking for alternatives now that a federal pipeline ...

Bank of America ratchets up investment in Cuyahoga Land Bank: Extra asbestos regulations require more help

November 20, 2012 [Robert Sustersic, WEWS] The Bank of America is putting up an extra $25,000 to help Cuyahoga County ...

A disabled Northeast Ohio veteran has a new home

November 11, 2012 [Kevin Niedermier, WKSU] In a few months a disabled Cleveland-area Army veteran will become a homeowner, a ...

Northeast Ohio organization giving developmentally disabled people opportunity to learn about agricultural

August 20, 2012 [Kevin Niedermeyer] Ground will be broken this week in Cleveland for a farm that will give people ...

Cuyahoga project will employ fathers who served jail time

June 26, 2012 [Kelli Fitzpatrick] The Cuyahoga Land Bank is partnering with a nonprofit group to employ formerly incarcerated fathers ...

Summit County fast-tracking land bank program

June 4, 2012 [Amanda Rabinowitz, WKSU] The idea has been in the discussion phase for years, but the Beacon Journal ...

News Headlines 3/20/12 (WKSU)

A long-awaited plan to develop 90 acres along Cleveland’s lakefront is moving forward. Cleveland City Council Monday night approved Mayor ...

Communities are going into rehab (WKSU)

A dozen new county-wide land banks are up and running in Ohio.  They are to help deal with a problem growing ...

County land bank concept alive and well in northeast Ohio

December 8, 2011 [Tim Rudell, WKSU] Since 2008 the nonprofit Cuyahoga County land bank has handled over a thousand abandoned ...

Cuyahoga land bank clearing big section of east Cleveland

September 13, 2011 [Kevin Niedermeyer, WKSU] A large swath of vacant properties in economically depressed East Cleveland will be demolished ...

Bank donates foreclosed homes to Cuyahoga County

June 28, 2011 [Anna Staver, WKSU] Bank of America is donating up to 100 foreclosed properties to the Cuyahoga County ...

Ohio’s first countywide land bank is now operating in northeast Ohio

June 11, 2009 [Kevin Niedermeyer, WKSU] After nearly 2 years of planning and lobbying, Cuyahoga County's land bank has officially ...