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Cook County IL passes groundbreaking vacant property registration ordinance: Full ordinance

Publication Date: 12/28/2011
Cook County – the county seat of the City of Chicago – unanimously passed landmark vacant property registration legislation in December 2011 that will help prevent neglect in unincorporated Cook and any of the County’s 128 municipalities that choose to participate. Community...

Cook County IL passes groundbreaking vacant property registration ordinance: learn more about the issue and the legislation from this PowerPoint presentation

Publication Date: 12/28/2011
Cook County – the county seat of the City of Chicago – unanimously passed landmark vacant property registration legislation in December 2011 that will help prevent neglect in unincorporated Cook and any of the County’s 128 municipalities that choose to participate. Community...

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...

Dynamic Maps of Mortgage Conditions in the United States

Maintained by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Federal Reserve Bank of New York maintains a map of the United States with mortgage delinquencies reported by county. The maps can show either data from the latest quarter reported, or the year-to-year change. Data can be disaggregated to show...

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...

Land Bank Authorities: A Guide for the Creation and Operation of Local Land Banks

Publication Date: 4/1/2005
By Frank Alexander for LISC In this guidebook, Emory Law Professor Frank Alexander explores the development of land banks in St. Louis, Cleveland, Louisville, Atlanta, and Genesee County, Mich., addressing the conditions, history, and legal structures of each. In comparing and contrasting the...