This past summer the Cuyahoga Land Bank had the opportunity to host a student intern through the Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship Program. Staff member Lilah Zautner, Manager of Special Projects and Land Reuse, has shared the success of the program… Read more ›
In the spring of 2014, Deborah (Gries) Zawislan contacted Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners (TCWP) about a property that her family inherited with a vision of transforming it into a protected greenspace, “Lorry’s Woods,” in honor of their mother. The Gries… Read more ›
What do you have when over two hundred and fifty people assemble at the Wyndham Hotel representing county land banks throughout Ohio? It’s the annual Thriving Communities Institute‘s Ohio Land Bank Conference. This year’s sessions highlighted many nuts-and-bolts issues and… Read more ›
On November 23, 2015, the Cuyahoga Land Bank began the first major commercial demolition utilizing County Demolition Program funds at 3393 Warrensville Center Road in Shaker Heights. The buildings had been shuttered for many years and are now owned by… Read more ›
While social media bloomed with kind words for veterans last week, a project that truly gives back to those who have sacrificed so much was quietly taking shape in a duplex in East Cleveland. Previously vacant, the house is now… Read more ›
Earlier this year the Cuyahoga Land Bank and Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services (NEON) collaborated and broke ground on a future home for veterans in Collinwood. The project is part of the NEON Healthy Communities Initiative that will offer safe, affordable and desirable living spaces… Read more ›
The HomeFront Veterans Home Ownership Program is designed to help veterans achieve the dream of home ownership. The Cuyahoga Land Bank is offering affordable options to those who are currently serving in or have served the United States Armed Forces.… Read more ›
How does a person go from working over twenty years in the commercial construction industry to serving veteran women who may be rebounding from drug addiction, domestic violence, incarceration or homelessness? Sheila Locatelli, CEO and Founder of Women of Hope, would… Read more ›
Three veterans will soon have a place to call home thanks to a new partnership between the Cuyahoga Land Bank and Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM). The Veterans’ Affordable Housing Initiative provides permanent affordable housing for homeless veterans living in Cuyahoga… Read more ›
BUCYRUS – Depending on the size of the structure, it takes only a day or two to tear down a house, a lot less time than it took to build it. But in reality, property demolitions virtually never happen that… Read more ›
Since land bank legislation was adopted in 2009, Cuyahoga County has been working to create an effective process to deal with abandoned and vacant properties. Six years later, they’re taking in at least 100 properties every month while gradually… Read more ›
CLEVELAND, Nov. 9, 2015: Three veterans will soon have a place to call home thanks to a new partnership between the Cuyahoga Land Bank and Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM). The Veterans’ Affordable Housing Initiative provides permanent affordable housing for homeless veterans living in Cuyahoga County, helping them… Read more ›
Veterans should be honored, not homeless. None of them should be haunting the streets, or soup kitchens. They risked their lives, limbs and mental health to secure what we take for granted. They have earned the best that we can… Read more ›
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio — The Rev. Calvin Allen and his wife of nearly 40 years, Darlene, had been living the past few years in his late mother’s home in Cleveland. When it was time to move, they looked in South… Read more ›
CLEVELAND, OH – Three veterans will soon have a place to call home thanks to a new partnership between the Cuyahoga Land Bank and Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM). The Veterans’… Read more ›
The federal Home Affordable Refinance Program was added to an orchestra of taxpayer-funded loan modification instruments during the lowest days of the predatory loan and foreclosure crisis, in March 2009. HARP was designed to aid homeowners whose property values had gone south and who were… Read more ›
COLUMBUS – The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) today announced the recipients of additional funding under a program designed to help prevent foreclosures and stabilize local property values through the demolition and greening of vacant and blighted homes across the… Read more ›
WARREN – The Ohio Housing Finance Agency has awarded land banks in Trumbull and Mahoning counties $500,000 each. U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Howland, announced Tuesday that OHFA, through its Neighborhood Initiative Program, has made $13 million available from the U.S.… Read more ›
DETROIT — The ephemeral installation that filled an abandoned house with flowers last weekend was over before the blossoms had time to wilt, but it leaves behind the seeds of a plan to keep the property blooming for years. The… Read more ›
