“While an exact total of abandoned homes is not available, conservative estimates place the number of vacant and abandoned properties in Ohio in need of immediate demolition at 100,000.“
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Attorney General DeWine Announces Guidelines for Demolition Program
(COLUMBUS) – Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced guidelines for local communities interested in applying for the $75 million in demolition grants to help stabilize and improve communities by removing blighted and abandoned homes. The funds are from the national mortgage settlement reached earlier this year by the attorneys general with five of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers over foreclosure abuses, fraud and deceptive mortgage practices.
“Ohio’s communities have been hit hard by the mortgage foreclosure crisis,” said Attorney General DeWine. “The guidelines we are announcing today will begin the process of getting funds to local communities so that some of the problem properties can be demolished.”
The total amount of funding available to each county is based on the percentage of foreclosure filings in each county between 2008-2011 (which is the time period of the settlement agreement) divided by the total amount of funding ($75 million). The grants will be awarded on August 1, 2012. Funds will remain dedicated to a county until December 31, 2013, the end of the first grant application period. The funds may be reallocated if no application is submitted or if funds remain unspent on eligible reimbursement projects. A link to the total amount available to each county can be accessed here.
According to DeWine, “One of the biggest things holding this state back from moving forward is the vast number of abandoned and vacant homes littering Ohio. They are blight on our communities, rotting them from the inside out. Our new grant program will help free our neighborhoods — urban and rural, alike – from the blight that is paralyzing them.”
The Moving Ohio Forward Demolition Program will require that a lead entity, such as a land bank or local government, apply for the funds on behalf of each county in Ohio. The first round of grant applications, which can be downloaded from the Attorney General’s website at www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/foreclosure, will be accepted between May 4, 2012 and June 30, 2012. After grant agreements are executed, demolition work must be completed by December 31, 2013.
While an exact total of abandoned homes is not available, conservative estimates place the number of vacant and abandoned properties in Ohio in need of immediate demolition at 100,000.
A goal of the Moving Ohio Forward Demolition Program is to maximize the number of demolitions of blighted and abandoned residential properties. Recognizing that many local governments are experiencing economic hardships, the program will not require a match for the first $500,000 allocated to each county. Counties will be required to provide a dollar-for-dollar match to receive any reimbursement request over their $500,000 allocation.
Local communities with questions regarding this program should contact the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Mortgage Foreclosure Unit, 30 E. Broad St., 15th Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215, or email at MovingOhioForward@ohioattorneygeneral.gov.
SOURCE: http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov
If this does not piss you off, I do not know what will…
Throw hundreds of thousands of people in Ohio (millions across the country) out of their homes just to demolish them is beyond ridiculous.
Do you all see what is happening here yet?
And it is only going to get worse…
See you in the camps…
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Heaven flippin forbid they use the money to fix up the ones that can be fixed and come up with a program to help the people whom have been made homeless due to the banks frauds and forgeries…lets take the money…get rid of the former homes and give the homeless some vacant land to sleep on…idiots
The idea is to make as many Americans homeless and create refugee camps as payback from the enemy…the only way to crash America is economically and divide and conquer/class wars and make them homeless, hopeless and scared…the majority seems to fall into the trap of the credit system…hook, line and sinker!!!
I really enjoyed listening to the you tube video on the wizard of Oz. Everyone should but don’t be alarm by it…but knowing and understanding the financial history of the USA and the powers that be even today in the financial industry does help to determine a plan of action…
The county officials may be on their payroll also…but they will have their day in court…when the rest of the foreclosures hit their area and then they have to do more demolition until the area become a wasteland…so they are obviously not in their right minds to do what they are doing right now…
Wow, After so many people lost their homes thanks to abuses, and frauds committed by banksters, then they are going to BULLDOZE them with tax payers money, I guess the swindle never stops, So the point is BANKS NEVER PAY FOR ANYTHING, People do
I first heard about his plan to demolish the houses on NPR about a month ago. I wrote about it here.
It’s more proof that the banksters have no interest in anything that resembles a sensible housing or lending market. They want only to extract their fees and kickbacks, collect their quarterly bonuses, and then leave when the shell of an institution they work for hits the skids.
I have to throw up!
works great for the banks its a back door bailout for the bankster who, is using the same money he just gave to the atty general to clear the title of the property, by demolish ion of said property, the title becomes clear with the house gone, the title was clouded and probably impossible to fix, so when the home is demolished the title becomes clean, now the bankster owns the raw land free and clear, what did we get? we got a promise that the real estate market will rid itself of blight, but the fruit of this is all in favor of the bank and their economy, what did we get and what did we lose?
How does demolition remove clouds on title? The land would still have value and would still be deeded to someone, right? I presume that someone is still responsible for weed removal, property taxes, etc. I don’t see how removing a vacant, often vandalized, home from the land helps at all in clearing up who actually owns it.
If they’re demolishing vacant houses, how will hundreds of thousands of Ohioans be thrown out of their homes?
I do agree that it’s despicable to use funds earmarked to help people who were defrauded for this activity instead. Funds that were laughably insufficient to begin with.
How many of the abandoned foreclosed homes were stolen, now standing with cloudy titles?
What the local governments don’t see coming is the train wreck called fraudclosure and get
the town or county sued for damages. After the fact.
And to the above post, why did you add Israel to your pack of african countries ?
Also to the above, about the indian tribes, that land was conquered not stolen. The
treaties were broken by the feds. And it would help your idea of the tribes if you were to
read about their histories before and after the europeans showed up.
Are we shocked and surprised that the settlement money is going to destroy people’s homes? Exactly the opposite of what should be happening, in keeping people in homes, but PAYING good money to destroy the houses so they can’t be lived in!! All while we rebuild housing WE destroyed in foreign countries. Have we lost our minds??? This is ludicrous. If it happened in another country how would we see it? Forcing people out of their homes into the street and bulldozing their homes! When done in other countries,like Rwanda, Israel, Africa we scream foul! It is sometimes referred to as ethnic cleansing. Only we are forcing our the disadvantaged, jobless, homeless, disabled and poor into the streets and actually destroying the roof over their heads!
Is this ludicrous? We should be a civilized nation of compassion, give us your poor, needy but we have turned into greedy, self-centered pseudo-religious zealots that have no love for fellow man.
It reminds me of what we did to the Native Americans, driving them from their homes to steal the land. I am ashamed of the actions being taken in the false premise of “stabilization.” It is not foreclosing and abandoning houses that will stabilize the market. NO, the houses being destroyed have no redeeming value in the market. Vacant lots that can’t be built on hold no restoration value when builders can’t rebuild for liquidation REO prices and people can’t get credit to buy in these areas anyway. The only effective stabilization is modification, forbearance, reducing principal for those who could recover. Spend settlement money on something constructive, not destruction to payoff some contractor to reduce livable houses to rubble.
Sad. . . .
Appalling!
talktotennessee thank you for having what it takes to BE a HumanBeing.A conscience,compassion…
readdocs,do you mean to infer that genocide in Africa isn’t genocide,but genocide in Israel is genocide?I don’t catch your drift but it doesn’t sound Snow White…As to conquered vs.stolen lands,what a huge moral difference…ya’ mean that”might makes right” after all?who’d a thunk it?The victors get the spoils or some such highly evolved..uhmm,let me see…Principle?I don’t visit here to often,being a mere Ryot without a j.o.b. (just over broke) right now;pesky thing called hand to mouth day to day survival…no gov assist (don’t want any,really…though I fell low &far down; fell down enough to take a look at what that is supposed to be…) yes,way down,if you know what I’m saying… on the razor edge of suicidal thoughts aka hopelessness&utter despair; many times of late.Ahh but all’s fair in love and war,this sure ain’t love so we must then be at war…with our own countrymen.All these useless eaters,maybe we should just resurrect the Final Solution?Cast some lots for the loot?Surrender the booty?I mean,what’s a person to do?I mean,all those shopping malls stocked with all that crap from China,all those university students ready to graduate into this here”real” world;even if they can’t locate Alaska…hell,how many states did Obama say we have,who cares about precision,historical accuracy…MEMEME and I got MINE and I feel FINE..yo ho yo ho so go ahead and die…Interesting times,the curse has held.Opposite of love being not hat but:indifference.Gotz it A MErica,gotz it!!!!!!
Heaven forbid that they actually put homeless people in these homes…government sues for money damages when they were not even the ones damaged and now they are going to tear down the homes as opposed to helping people out who have been left homeless because of the damages caused to their lives. For the government to even suggest that the homeowners were not damaged I have one question…then why did you go after the bank for damages? That money should go to the people who have been affected by the crimes of the bank…not government entities that don’t have the brains of an ant. So what are you going to do next…spend the money on a prison so you can put all the homeless in jail for vagrancy…UNBELIEVABLE!
Probably onto a pattern there,Sheryl Sutter…rumor has it that these privately operated prisons are quite lucrative…therefore,we need a larger”criminal class”…poor is a crime now;in the land of the fee&home of the wage slave…Big Gov in bed with Big Business:BOOMING!!!!Wait,can I go to jail for that?Betcha.
This is ridiculous….I can barely stand it another second. Kick people out after refusing to work with them for a loan mod..then using settlement money to finish the destruction and demolish the home. Sweet Lord.
jaclyn…yes indeed,gov doublespeak,my “neighbors” (mostly) work for or are retired from the State of NY they speak a totally different language than the rest of us common people.Why,they even believe in an aristocratic class:themselves…!Remember the 1% gets the blame but the 40% OWNS the SHAME..they are complicit…..No Mercy.
No matter what happens to the Original homeowners’ property that you brought FRAUD and CONSPIRACY against them to SCARE and use Enforcement to THROW them out of their PROPERTIES is still a CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION against THE HOME OWNERS that have a LEGAL RIGHT to be PROTECTED, and to PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY under this US Constitution from ALL enemies FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
ALL THE JUDGES HAVE SWORN AN OATH TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION, AND IF THEY DIDN’T THEN THE TRUTH SHALL FIND THEM AS WELL…
IN TIME THE CURTAIN WILL RISE TO REVEAL WHAT YOU CAN’T HIDE…
“Trying to BULLDOZE and BURY the truth of “BEING BAILED OUT” and YOUR GREED FOR MORE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU against THE CONSPIRACY OF, FRAUD, GRAND THEFT AND OTHER COUNTS THAT you BROUGHT on the UNITED STATES SOIL to ATTACK/ OUR OWN INNOCENT AMERICAN PEOPLE…”
THE TRUTH IS, YOU CREATED THIS MONSTER OF SECURITIZATION, and YOU STOLE FROM THE HARD WORKING AMERICA PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY!
So in the case of a securitized note NO PARTY who has the lawful right to enforce a foreclosure, and the payments alleged to have been default have been in fact, paid to the party to whom such payments were due.
Just “GOOGLE Explanation of Securitization”
These ORIGINAL LENDERS have BUNDLED and SOLD ALL those HOME OWNER MORTGAGES LOANS to WALL STREET, and BROKE the OWNER LENDER CONTRACT which is a breech of contract.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN OK, IF THAT MORTGAGE LOAN WENT FROM BANK TO BANK, “BUT IT DIDN’T…”
INSTEAD IT WENT STRAIGHT TO “WALL STREET”, which is NOT a “BANK,” and it…
forever changed the course of their MORTGAGE NOTE when it was SECURITIZED and CONVERTED into a STOCK OPTION, and PLACED into a MBS POOL of over 2000-5000 INTO A TRUST FOR THE investors who ALL GOT PAID, and THEIR NOT EVEN THE REAL PARTY IN INTEREST BECA– USE IT’S TOO MANY OF THEM TO LAY CLAIM TO A PROPERTY…
ALL THE ORIGINAL LENDERS WHO WERE THE SUBPRIME BANKS HAVE ALSO GOT PAID, AND HAVE “SAILED INTO THE NIGHT” WENT OUT OF BUSINESS HAD THE RIGHT TO FORECLOSE “NO ONE ELSE” PERIOD…
IN ADDITION THOSE BANKS DIDN’T ASSIGN ANYONE BEFORE THEY SAILED/WENT OUT OF BUSINESS.
SO THE CURTAIN ONE HAVE ALREADY LIFTED REVEALING YOUR ROBO-SIGNING WHICH YOU ALREADY “HAVE A GUILTY VERDICT”, ALONG WITH YOUR CONSENT DECREE. NOW YOU’RE VIOLATING IN COURT…
THESE BANKS SHOULD ALREADY BE SANCTIONED FROM THESE COURTS!
WHY ARE THEY BACK IN COURT TO DEFEND OR LAY CLAIM? THE BANKS ARE NOT THE DAMAGED PARTY!
THE COURTS ARE WASTING MORE MONEY IN SENSELESS LIGITATION.
THE HOMEOWNERS WILL ALWAYS BE THE DAMAGED PARTY BECA– USE OF THE FRAUD and SECURITIZATION of the MORTGAGES ALONG with the Wrongful FORECLOSING/EVICTIONS and now the DESTRUCTION OF THEIR REAL PROPERTY…
IT’S NOT OVER because the STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS on FRAUD is TIMELESS. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP…
JUST FACE IT, YOU GOT CAUGHT TOO MANY TIMES, and it’s PUBLISHED!
YOU JUST SHOULD OF HAVE GIVEN THE HO– USES BACK TO THE HOMEOWNERS!!! “THEN WE COULD HAVE JUST GOT ALONG.”
THEN AMERICA COULD OF MOVED ON AND SLOWLY PICKED UP THE PIECES…
THE CURTAIN WILL RISE IN THE NEXT ACT TO REVEAL THE REAL TERRORIST…
SO BAD BOYS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU!!!