To the editor:

     (Plain Press November 2024) Thank you, Chuck Hoven, for your August article: Cleveland and Cuyahoga County need new policies to help residents address property delinquency.

     For years, authors at REALNEO.us have asked that Cuyahoga County stop third party tax lien sales and for Cuyahoga County to stop funding the corrupt Cuyahoga County Land Bank through delinquent tax fees.

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     To his credit, Chris Ronayne has not allowed tax lien sales under his administration, but he refuses to acknowledge the decades of properties stolen outright from homeowners who had paid off their mortgages, but subsequently lost their homes through tax delinquency.

     The new county tax appraisals will bankrupt another generation of homeowners, mostly seniors who had hoped to age in place. There needs to be a complete overhaul of County government starting with the Cuyahoga County Land Bank.

Laura McShane