Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation: the Beginning, the Present, and Beyond, 2009 - 2011

By W. Dennis Keating, PhD, Cleveland State University

Dennis Keating of Cleveland State University in Ohio spent six weeks with Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization staff to learn more about the inner workings of the land bank, and compiled that information into a comprehensive report about one of the nation's most inventive land banking projects. Among its innovations, CCLRC has agreements with Fannie Mae and HUD to serve as a bulk repository of vacant and abandoned properties, and that capacity has slowed down flipping and speculative trafficking in low value, abandoned properties in the metro Cleveland area and across Cuyahoga County.