Slavic Village

Cuyahoga County Likely To Approve $50 Million Demolition Fund

October 15, 2014 [Ideastream] The proposal came from County Executive Ed Fitzgerald last February with few details on how the ...
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Cuyahoga Land Bank Featured in Rooms to Let Cleveland

Even a vacant home can be turned into an artist's canvas! This is exactly what happened in the Warszawa District ...

Volunteers Spruce Up Slavic Village (The Plain Dealer)

Volunteers spruced up Slavic Village during the second-annual volunteer Community Day conducted by Slavic Village Recovery on the corner of ...
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Slavic Village Recovery Project Brings Big Changes to Historic Neighborhood

In 2007, Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood saw the highest rate of foreclosure nationally, not so affectionately becoming known as the ...

Slavic Village Recovery unveils first rehabilitated home (WOIO)

Some positive news for Cleveland's Slavic Village! Cleveland City Officials and members of Slavic Village Recovery, LLC, showed off their first ...

300 homes in Cleveland’s Slavic Village to be renovated over three years bringing in young families (WEWS Newschannel 5)

CLEVELAND - Samantha Paizs and her fiancé, John Hall, will soon move into a completely refurbished home in Cleveland's Slavic ...

Slavic Village, devastated by the national housing crisis, is battling back (Cleveland.com)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Just before dinner on a warm fall afternoon last week, Cecelia Smith mounted a riding mower, steered ...
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Renovating Habitat for Humanity

It’s an idea whose time has come: renovating foreclosed and abandoned homes instead of building new ones from the ground ...

Press Release: Cuyahoga Land Bank Does It Again: Leads Nation in Use of Stimulus Funding to Revitalize Neighborhood (Press Release)

A coalition led by the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, commonly known as the Cuyahoga Land Bank, has completed the ...

Habitat for Humanity leading effort to rehab vacant houses on two Cleveland Streets

April 4, 2013 [Michael O'Malley, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity, which has been building ...

Forest City, Safeguard Properties join Cleveland nonprofits to rehab homes in Slavic Village (Plain Dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Slavic Village, the Cleveland neighborhood often called "ground zero" in the nation's foreclosure crisis, might become the ...

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 ...