Attorney General’s Moving Ohio Forward Program Supports 3,500 Demolitions
On February 27th, Ohio General Attorney Mike DeWine held a press conference in Columbus to announce the results of his ...
More than 14,600 abandoned homes in Ohio razed with mortgage settlement cash
February 27, 2015 [Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland.com] More than 14,600 blighted homes around Ohio have been demolished during the past three ...
Jim Rokakis headlines the City Club
On August 15, Thriving Communities Institute Director Jim Rokakis spoke to a sold-out City Club lunch forum that attracted politicians, ...
Lake, Geauga, Cuyahoga counties working to remove blight
June 20, 2014 [Andrew Cass, The News-Herald] The Lake County Land Bank demolished its first blighted home on Sept. 30, ...
Counties race to spend demolition cash (Columbus Dispatch)
With six months left in the state’s program to tear down blighted properties in local communities, almost 80 percent of ...
Big Step to Fight Blight: County, city join forces to demolish vacant, deteriorating properties (Columbus Dispatch)
Franklin County hopes its new land bank will become a model for other communities plagued with vacant properties that — ...
Columbus, county reach agreement on land-bank protocol (Columbus Dispatch)
Columbus and Franklin County have reached an agreement to guide how the county’s new land bank will help Columbus address ...
“The Way Government is Supposed to Work”
Party politics wasn't on anyone's agenda on December 7th, when Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine visited a Slavic Village demolition ...
Cuyahoga Land Bank at the Ohio AG Demolition Grant Press Conference (Youtube)
The Ohio Attorney General distributed $11.8 million in matching funds ($6.8 million from the Land Bank, $5 million from the ...
Cleveland and Cuyahoga County hope to get millions for demolition
December 10, 2012 [Thomas Ott, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland and Cuyahoga County hope to get at least ...
How a Community Demolished Its Way Out of a Crisis (National Journal)
‘BURY THE DEAD’ Rokakis became an unlikely champion of demolition over rehabbing the abandoned houses. “By 2007, it became obvious ...
AG Mike DeWine Applauds Efforts of Cuyahoga County Officials to Demolish Abandoned Properties Across Ohio
December 10, 2012 [LoanSafe.org] (CLEVELAND)—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today joined Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and other Cuyahoga County Officials ...
