Press release
The newly formed Crawford County Land Reutilization Corporation (Land Bank) has been recently awarded a Neighborhood Initiative Program(NIP) grant of $1,725,000 by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA). These funds will be used to facilitate the removal of blighted, delinquent, vacant and abandoned residential buildings in targeted areas of Crawford County.
The Land Bank is accepting applications from land owners who are interested in acquiring these targeted properties. These properties may fall into the following categories with only the 2nd category eligible for this funding:
- Vacant land with no buildings (small lots adjoining neighbors who would benefit from having the property attached to their existing property).
- Properties with buildings (deteriorated and vacant) that would be eligible for demolition. The potential end user could acquire a vacant lot after the demolition occurs.
Some restrictions may limit the eligibility of potential end users of these properties. Those with prior delinquency, foreclosure actions, local code violations or those who have special relationships to previous owners of the property may be affected.
If interested, more information is available and taxpayers may have questions answered and obtain applications for abandoned, vacant and delinquent property by contacting the Crawford County Land Bank at 112 East Mansfield Street Suite 207 Bucyrus Oh 44820 , email to cclb@crawford-co.org or call Barb McCullough at 419-562-7861.
Below is a list of entities funded by the Neighborhood Initiative Program.
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) today announced the recipients of additional funding under the Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP), a program designed to help prevent foreclosures and stabilize local property values through the demolition and greening of vacant and blighted homes across the state. Sixteen newly established and nineteen previously participating land banks were awarded a portion of $54.2 million in funding available through the fifth round of the Hardest Hit Fund Program. In total, $238 million has been allocated to this program.
The 16 counties receiving new awards in funding through NIP are:
Allen County Land Reutilization Corporation $4,500,000.00
Clinton County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,000,000.00
Crawford County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,725,000.00
Lawrence County Land Reutilization Corporation $4,325,000.00
Licking County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,400,000.00
Marion County Land Reutilization Corporation $850,000.00
Morrow County Land Reutilization Corporation $625,000.00
Ottawa County Land Reutilization Corporation $500,000.00
Perry County Land Reutilization Corporation $525,000.00
Ross County Land Reutilization Corporation $500,000.00
Sandusky County Land Reutilization Corporation $750,000.00
Scioto County Land Reutilization Corporation $2,725,000.00
Seneca County Land Reutilization Corporation $4,025,000.00
Shelby County Land Reutilization Corporation $2,500,000.00
Van Wert County Land Reutilization Corporation $500,000.00
Williams County Land Reutilization Corporation $500,000.00
The 19 counties receiving an increase in funding through NIP are:
Ashtabula County Land Reutilization Corporation $350,429.90
Belmont County Land Reutilization Corporation $135,193.20
Butler County Land Reutilization Corporation $540,772.79
Clark County Land Reutilization Corporation $238,841.45
Columbiana County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,600,000.00
Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation $6,012,505.47
Erie County Land Reutilization Corporation $101,394.90
Fairfield Land Reutilization Corporation $52,060.50
Central Ohio Community Improvement Corporation (Franklin) $2,298,897.91
Hamilton County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,112,041.89
Jefferson County Land Reutilization Corporation $113,111.77
Lorain County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,330,000.00
Lucas County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,924,341.83
Mahoning County Land Reutilization Corporation $3,153,034.98
Montgomery County Land Reutilization Corporation $3,809,189.83
Richland County Land Reutilization Corporation $801,278.31
Stark County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,280,279.58
Summit County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,114,632.54
Trumbull County Land Reutilization Corporation $1,323,816.14