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Dec 27, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham
Relatives of Tanisha Anderson partnered with Cleveland City Council members and Case Western Reserve University students to author a new piece of legislation. As proposed, “Tanisha’s Law” would revise training regimens for mental health crises via a new Department of Community Crisis Response.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham |Collin Cunningham Born
Cleveland’s city government is revising its dual-department approach to addressing local cases of lead poisoning. The goal is to enact stricter testing measures to help better identify which owners still need to rid properties of the toxic metal. Three years into Cleveland’s rollout of its citywide Lead Safe Certification initiative, Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration is working on a new model that would commit to more thorough lead removal procedures in the hopes of improving city processes.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham |Collin Cunningham Born
Alongside longtime neighborhood resident, advocate and St. Matthew United Methodist Church trustee and chairperson Mittie Jordan, Hough inhabitants and church congregants have quietly spent the last decade building Brookdale Orchard into a bulwark against blight along Superior Avenue and Wade Park. The orchard’s supporters plan on replenishing abandoned acreage surrounding the Daniel E. Morgan K-8 School with gardens to build a food brand to serve an area that the City of Cleveland abandoned.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham |Collin Cunningham Born
Vacant multi-acre parcels throughout Cuyahoga County are readying for redevelopment as brownfield sites – places of heavy industry where stakeholders are chasing the next Intel-sized tenant for the Cleveland market. As NOACA prepares to distribute over $500,000 in federal loans for new brownfield development in the coming months, land utilization policy experts discuss Northeast Ohio’s role in the nationwide brownfield development trend.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham |Collin Cunningham Born
Despite Bike Cleveland’s ongoing advocacy efforts to improve road safety across the 6,000-plus streets comprising the city’s grid, Cleveland has already experienced an uptick in traffic-related deaths with 12 cyclists and pedestrians killed in vehicular accidents, an increase over the nine who died in 2023. That puts tough questions and discussions before the nonprofit as members gather data to help local leaders craft the municipality’s first mobility plan since 2007.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham |Collin Cunningham Born
In transitioning from an East Cleveland church to a newer community center building, the Father Michael Wittman Ozanam Center’s weekly food pantry program is better poised to help channel more produce and shelf-stable items to residents. Volunteers, however, are looking to spread word of the relocation and bring attention to the East Cleveland City School District’s Chambers Community Empowerment Center as a whole to increase attendance.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham |Collin Cunningham Born
Nearly three years after Cleveland leaders launched a master plan for redeveloping the Clark-Fulton neighborhood with professional and residential input, one of its cornerstone housing developments is moving forward. The Arch at Saint Michael project will repurpose classrooms and offices into 46 new low-income multifamily apartment units for seniors in the Saint Michael Archangel Roman Catholic Church’s former school and convent.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham |Collin Cunningham Born
A writer’s three-decade career of social and cultural action have combined with a former bookseller’s 15-year-old poetry program at a Cleveland men’s shelter and a local nonprofit grant to produce a collection of 25 poems from the city’s unhoused individuals. RA Washington, who assembled “These Words are Not My Home: Poems, Stories and Essays from the Unhoused” spoke to The Land about expression, ambition, intent and the program that led to the book.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham |Collin Cunningham Born
Agriculturalist Erich Hooper’s property on W. 11th Street boasts the oldest urban farm in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood and serves as a community garden, STEM classroom and bastion of do-it-yourself volunteerism. By the end of 2024, the property will also host the city’s newest miniature golf course, as Hooper hopes to draw more people to his self-made backyard sanctuary.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
thelandcle.org | Collin Cunningham |Collin Cunningham Born
As the Hitchcock Center for Women prepares to round the century mark on its current brick-and-mortar treatment facility, the 36-year-old women’s recovery housing provider broke ground in late June on a 77,000-square-foot modernized addition. Once complete and open to low-income residents in 2025, the new building will offer over 50 single-family Section 8 housing units in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood and allow the residential addiction center to expand its services.
