CLEVELAND, Ohio — Buying a house for $500 would be an indisputable bargain in most places, but not necessarily in Cleveland. So when the owner of the vacant house in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood made the offer to developer and… Read more ›
CLEVELAND, Ohio–Drive around Cuyahoga County and you can’t miss the telltale signs of the housing crisis. They’re seemingly everywhere — the vacant, boarded-up homes, and the crumbling front walks and driveways that lead to vacant lots where homes once stood… Read more ›
The city again will receive help from the Cuyahoga County Land Bank to remove houses that have been vacant. The Planning Commission approved the demolition of three homes that the land bank, officially the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, will… Read more ›
CLEVELAND – Members of Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity will take a bus tour of two target neighborhoods that will soon be given badly needed renovations. The plan is to adopt two streets and repair up to six vacant homes… Read more ›
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS — City Council is collaborating with East Cleveland officials in an effort to rejuvenate the struggling North Coventry neighborhood. Utilizing funding provided by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office and the Cuyahoga County Land Bank, the cities have embarked on… Read more ›
Check out latest edition of the Cuyahoga Land Bank Newsletter! Our first April edition feature stories include: Rhonda Derrett’s Deed-in-Escrow Program Experience: Testimonial Partner Feature: NHS of Greater Cleveland Launches Consumer Law Center
All meetings of the Cuyahoga Land Bank’s Board of Directors are open to the public. Meeting announcements, Board resolutions, and meeting minutes can be found on the Board Meetings page of our website.
Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) of Greater Cleveland announced last fall the launch of the NHS Consumer Law Center – a new effort in consumer protection that will give consumers from Northeast Ohio and beyond the knowledge and confidence to pause… Read more ›
The Cuyahoga Land Bank Deed-in-Escrow program makes it possible for individuals to purchase properties in the Cuyahoga Land Bank inventory and renovate them. Rhonda Derrett, who was renovating a home for her sick father, needed special consideration due to her… Read more ›
SOUTH EUCLID — The city continues to make headway as it, like many cities in the area, battles the blight of vacated homes. It has been announced that just over $400,000 will be spent in South Euclid this year to… Read more ›
In this edition, our cover story features our new agreement with HUD. However, the Cuyahoga Land Bank also has low value disposition agreements with Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Fannie Mae. Stay tuned, other agreements are in the works!
NORTH ROYALTON: Time has run out on the abandoned gas station at the corner of State Road and Royalton Road. The 60-day window for the property owners to appeal the building’s nuisance status has closed, leaving the city to move… Read more ›
BROOKLYN, Ohio – The doors of the former Brooklyn library building, vacant for 20 years, will open again soon and bring 20 new jobs and new investment of more than $400,000 to the city. On March 21 at 10 a.m.,… Read more ›
Cuyahoga Land Bank Chief Operating Officer Bill Whitney joined US Representatives Marcia Fudge, Marcy Kaptur and Dave Joyce at a press conference held to announce the re-introduction of the Property Value Restoration Act of 2013 in Congress. This new version… Read more ›
As the saying goes, a team that works together stays together! This characterizes the three year relationship between the Cuyahoga Land Bank and its partner the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis… Read more ›
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Slavic Village, the Cleveland neighborhood often called “ground zero” in the nation’s foreclosure crisis, might become the proving ground for a recovery. A private-philanthropic partnership aims to acquire, renovate and sell or rent out 50 vacant houses… Read more ›
The last time you went househunting, did you sometimes feel as if the corporate investors, developers and rehabbers had all the advantages? If you were shopping for a fixer-upper, it probably seemed as if the guys with the deeper pockets… Read more ›
