Each quarter, Western Reserve Land Conservancy’s Thriving Communities program hosts a networking meeting for land banks across the state. Please find the summaries below:
Spring 2019 Land Bank Network Meeting The Spring Land Bank Network/Ohio Land Bank Association meeting was held on Tuesday, May 21, 2019.
Click here to view the agenda.
Rural Home Loans Fact Sheet >
Neighborhood Initiative Program Update >
Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative – Rural Housing >
Click here to review a summary of Ohio demolition funding through 2018.
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Related Content We maintain a list of Ohio counties with existing land banks and provide contact information for each land bank and its board members at the links below. For a high-resolution, downloadable PDF of the Ohio County Land Bank Status map, click here: Land Bank Status as of March 2019 Land banks first emerged in the 1960s as an urban planning tool. Over the past two decades, land banking has become an increasingly important tool for cities challenged by vacant and abandoned properties. Many urban industrial centers throughout the nation were built for populations that simply were either never achieved or… The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Western Reserve Land Conservancy co-hosted the first-ever state conference on land banking in downtown Cleveland on October 12, 2011. The First Convening of Ohio Land Banks conference provided an interactive forum to discuss tactics and strategies with county officials and others who are…
