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Can a $23M redevelopment help Clark-Fulton add affordable senior housing while retaining history?
by Collin Cunningham, The Land (Plain Press September 2024) 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…
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Residents speak out about gentrification in Detroit Shoreway
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LAND This map shows the Detroit Shoreway, a near-westside neighborhood that is just west of Ohio City, just east of Cudell, and just north of Clark-Fulton and Stockyard. Lacey Caporale, a recent PhD graduate in sociology from Case Western Reserve University, has done extensive research in the neighborhood, interviewing dozens of…
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Author shares research on displacement caused by gentrification
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press August 2024) On July 10th at the Rhizhome House in Cleveland Heights the Greater Cleveland Housing Collective hosted an anti-gentrification teach-in and discussion with Andrew Lee, the author of Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War. At the workshop, Lee shared some of his experience organizing against displacement…
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Cleveland and Cuyahoga County need new policies to help residents address property tax delinquency
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press August 2024) Cleveland homeowners face foreclosure at a higher rate than the national average. A good percentage of those foreclosures are due to residents getting behind on their property tax payments. Cleveland and Cuyahoga County policy makers could do a much better job in assuring residents are able stay…
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NEOtrans News reports on funding of affordable housing
(Plain Press June 2024) On May 20th the online publication NEOtrans News reported that the Ohio Housing Finance Agency awarded 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) from the State of Ohio to Emerald Development and Economic Network Inc. (EDEN Inc.) for phase three EDEN’s Inc”s affordable townhomes and apartments across the street from EDEN…
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Legal Aid has new tool to protect Cleveland residents and neighborhoods from blight
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, April 20, 2024; 3279 W. 58th Street: This house in the Stockyard neighborhood was severely damaged by fire over three months ago. by Tonya Sams (Plain Press May 2024) There is a new tool to help Cleveland improve the conditions of its housing stock. As properties change hands…
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Ohio City Inc. committed to affordable housing at Fairview Gardens
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, March 19, 2024; Fairview Gardens, 3207 Franklin Boulevard: Ohio City Incorporated (OCI) is taking steps to reduce the property tax bill at Fairview Gardens and is committed to keeping the apartments affordable for senior citizens. (Plain Press April 2024) Some concern has been expressed in the Ohio City neighborhood…
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Get a fresh start in 2024 with Legal Aid
by Tonya Sams Happy New Year! With a new year is an opportunity for a fresh start and The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland can help! Legal Aid has been offering free civil legal services to those with low incomes (up to 200% federal poverty guideline) since 1905 – the fifth oldest legal…
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Housing protections for survivors of domestic violence
by Allison K. Younger (Plain Press, November 2023) If you are a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and you live in public housing, have a housing voucher or if your housing is otherwise supported by the federal government, then the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) protects your rights as…
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Metro West’s new executive director issues State of the Community Address
(Plain Press, October 2023) Emily Lee, the new Executive Director of Metro West Community Development Organization issued a State of the Community Address on the Metro West website at www.metrowestcle.org. The Metro West Community Development Organization serves the Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, and Brooklyn Centre neighborhoods. Lee, who began serving as executive director of Metro West…
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