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Demolition Grant Program Update Shows 6,000 Abandoned Properties Demolished

COLUMBUS, Ohio - October 23, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ohio Attorney General DeWine announced today that his Demolition Grant Program has surpassed 6,000 properties demolished. DeWine provided an update on the program as part of a keynote address at a neighborhood revitalization conference in Columbus, "Revitalizing Ohio's Vacant Properties: Tools and Policies to Transform Communities," sponsored by the Greater Ohio Policy Center and Thriving Communities Institute.

Attorney General DeWine Praises Efforts of City of Mansfield, Richland County to Demolish Abandoned...

MANSFIELD, OH - February 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today joined Mansfield Mayor Tim Theaker and several other Richland County officials at the demolition of an abandoned house made possible by a grant from his Demolition Grant Program. The property at 102 Raymond Avenue in Mansfield is one of many properties in Ohio that have been demolished through efforts by local communities and the Attorney General's Demolition Grant Program.

Brown Announces New Federal Resources to Improve Rural Housing in Ohio

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ohio public agencies and non-profit organizations in Meigs, Portage, Pickaway, and Pike counties will receive federal resources to improve rural housing in Ohio. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chair of the Subcommittee on Jobs, Rural Economic Growth, and Energy Innovation, announced new grants through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Housing Preservation Grant Program to make critical repairs and improve housing conditions in rural areas.

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Central Ohio Housing Report – December 2018

While the 2017 housing market was marked by renewed optimism fueled by stock market strength, higher wages and a competitive environment for home sales, 2018 maintained the competitive housing market amid less than stellar stock market performance and rising interest rates while housing affordability dipped to a ten-year low.