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Cook County Land Bank TAP Report

Publication Date: 12/18/2012
By Urban Land Institute, Chicago Cook County, Illinois has faced a widespread problem of vacancy and abandonment, especially following the recent foreclosure crisis. This report, produced by a Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) to support land banking efforts in the County, introduces the problem of...

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

Publication Date: 11/17/2011
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...

Foreclosure and Beyond: A Report on Ownership and Housing Prices Following Sheriff's Sales, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 2000-2007

Publication Date: 1/1/2008
By Claudia Coulton, Kristen Mikelbank, and Michael Schramm Published by The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University Rates of foreclosure have quadrupled since 2000 in Cuyahoga County, primarily as a...

The Role of Investors in the Single-Family Market in Distressed Neighborhoods: The Case of Atlanta

Publication Date: 2/5/2013
By Dan Immergluck As a result of the housing crisis, Atlanta has experienced a significant increase in the number of investor-owned single-family properties. This study seeks to describe the flow of single-family properties coming out REO status and the behavior of...

Banking on Neighborhood Stabilization

Publication Date: 4/25/2012
By Dan Kildee Even the most sophisticated private and nonprofit partnerships for dealing with vacant property will end up with some properties that don’t pencil out. Land banks can step in to keep those properties from dragging down revitalization efforts. A year ago, the Beach Street...

Slowing Speculation: A Proposal to Lessen Undesirable Housing Transactions

Publication Date: 3/2/2012
By: O. Emre Ergungor, Senior Research Economist, and Thomas J Fitzpatrick IV, Economist   In the City of Cleveland, 8.2 percent of the housing stock sits vacant or abandoned, according to the U.S. Postal Service. In this environment, private investment in foreclosed properties may sound like...