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The Ohio Housing Finance Agency Board approved more than $3 million for affordable housing initiatives across the state of Ohio, including:

COLUMBUS, OH - May 19, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- In a case symbolic of the nation’s foreclosure crisis, a mortgage broker was sentenced today in Cuyahoga County for orchestrating a mortgage fraud scheme that involved $5.8 million in bogus loans and 78 homes in Cleveland’s Slavic Village.

COLUMBUS, OH - May 18, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Ohio Department of Development Interim Director Lisa Patt-McDaniel today announced more than $20 million in Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund grants to 11 brownfield clean-up projects throughout the state. The funding, approved at a Clean Ohio Council Round Six award meeting, will allow for the reuse of idle commercial and industrial properties and is expected to initially create and retain more than 550 jobs.

COLUMBUS, OH - February 18, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) Board today approved the Annual Plan, which addresses the state’s affordable housing needs in Ohio.

COLUMBUS — Six Cleveland area neighborhoods are looking forward to revitalization efforts that will encourage new homebuyers to invest in their communities. Today, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) Board approved an award of $1.5 million in Ohio Housing Trust Funds and a $1 million Housing Development Loan to assist the vacant properties redevelopment initiative in Cleveland.

Columbus, OH - March 13, 2008 - Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher today announced 15 awards through the Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit program, which...