Members of the First District Community Relations team are making great progress on the home they are renovating for a mother and her children on Cleveland’s West Side. Read more ›

The Western Reserve Land Conservancy, Cleveland Tree Coalition member organizations, and community partners hosted an Arbor Day Block Party in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood on April 27. Read more ›

We are often asked about the day-to-day work of the Cuyahoga Land Bank from curious residents and community leaders.  In this ongoing Behind the Scenes series, we take a look at the extensive environmental assessment work done on every residential and commercial property in the Cuyahoga Land Bank inventory. Read more ›

The Cuyahoga Land Bank is pleased to be a part of Opportunity CLE, a collaboration of public and civic leaders working together to attract local and national investment into Greater Cleveland’s Opportunity Zones, a new federal designation designed to spur development in economically distressed areas. Read more ›

Chief Operating Officer Bill Whitney has announced his plan to retire in June. Bill’s leaving marks the end of an era for the Cuyahoga Land Bank, as he has been an integral part of the team since its creation in 2009. Read more ›

The Cleveland Housing Court will hold a free seminar for landlords (and aspiring landlords) on Wednesday, March 6 from 3-6 p.m. at the Cleveland Public Library Fulton Branch (3545 Fulton Road) in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Read more ›

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cleveland completed construction on two homes in January and held dedications at which the families received keys to their new homes. Read more ›

Members of the Cleveland Police First District Community Relations team and Councilman Brian Kazy welcomed a mother and her children to their new home on Cleveland’s west side in January. Read more ›

St. Francis School, a vibrant educational institution on Cleveland’s near east side, serves as a beacon of hope and a source of quality education for neighborhood families and children. In 2016, St. Francis’s Principal Scott Embacher contacted the Cuyahoga Land Bank for help in assembling four abandoned and blighted houses directly across the street from its campus.  Read more ›

Family, friends, volunteers and staff of several partner organizations came together in December to welcome Chanelle and her two daughters into their new home in Garfield Heights. Read more ›

For first-time homeowner Bridgette Newell, buying a home from the Cuyahoga Land Bank was a pressure-free experience. After extensive searches for homes on real estate websites, Bridgette, 49, found her two-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath fixer-upper on Lamson Avenue in Bedford on the Cuyahoga Land Bank website. Read more ›

In 2017, the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation (CDC) purchased this 924 square foot home on Buechner Avenue and promptly sold it to Green Home Solutions in order to save it from demolition. Read more ›

Thanks to the Cleveland Chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (we continue to just call them angels!), many disadvantaged children in the Cleveland area will wake up to find shiny new bikes under their Christmas tree this year! Read more ›

The Cuyahoga Land Bank recently developed another new, modern single-family home. The 2-bedroom, 3-bath home on Hancock Avenue in Cleveland’s trendy Ohio City neighborhood stands on the site of a formerly blighted and abandoned property. “The development and sale of… Read more ›

The Cuyahoga Land Bank joined Thrivent Financial and Building Hope in the City as sponsors of the 2018 Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) national conference in Chicago in early November. Read more ›

Women of Hope, a local non-profit group, continues its labor of love in creating transitional housing opportunities for women and children and veteran families in our community who are at-risk of homelessness. Read more ›

Congratulations to Deidre Lightning-Whitted, Senior Demolition Inspector at the Cuyahoga Land Bank, on being honored by the Cleveland Police Foundation at its annual Community Relations Awards Ceremony. Read more ›

Western Reserve Land Conservancy’s 2018 Ohio Land Bank Conference, held October 23-24 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Downtown Columbus, offered up timely and essential information for more than 300 attendees from new and established land banks throughout Ohio.… Read more ›

On August 20, local news media joined community leaders, including Cuyahoga County Executive Armand Budish, to see first-hand the progress the Cuyahoga Land Bank is making in removing blight from one East Cleveland neighborhood.  As multiple crews demolished dilapidated houses… Read more ›

The Cuyahoga Land Bank and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently renewed its annual agreement that allows HUD to transfer low-value, vacant and abandoned properties to the Cuyahoga Land Bank for $100.  The unique agreement has… Read more ›