Friday, June 3, 2011
The Sun News profiled a Cleveland Heights resident on the brink of homelessness and described the process of how to receive the money and who is eligible
Since 2009, there have been about 1,700 eviction cases in Cleveland Heights, according to an article that ran Thursday in the Sun News. The newspaper profiled one of those Cleveland Heights residents who is now on the brink of homelessness and trying to find out ways to avoid sleeping on the streets or staying in a shelter. The city received $715,677 in stimulus money in May 2009 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and according to the article, there is still more than $500,000 left. However, the city is giving back about 80 percent of the remaining dollars to go somewhere else in Cuyahoga County. Read the full article in The Sun News to find out why the money is being sent back, and the process that someone …
Friday, March 11, 2011
Populations in inner and Greater Cleveland suburbs drop, including Cleveland Heights
Like many inner-ring suburbs in Cleveland, the city of Cleveland Heights lost 7 percent of its population since 2000, according to the 2010 Census results. Among six cities within 10 miles of Cleveland that we surveyed, only one city's population grew, and by only .3 percent. Within 20 miles, eight of the 13 city populations dropped. Cities between 21 and 40 miles fared much better, with only two of the 10 we surveyed dropping in population. Census Results Suggest People are Continuing to Move Away From the City Some of the results were not surprising, said Robert L. Fischer, Ph.D. and co-director of Case Western Reserve University's Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development. "Using (American Community Survey) population …
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Cleveland Heights sells second property purchased with Neighborhood Stabilization Program dollars
Cleveland Heights City Council approved the sale of a home on Brunswick Road that was purchased and renovated using money from the federal government. The city received $2 million through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which addresses the foreclosure crisis by granting money to local governments to buy abandoned, vacant and foreclosed homes, repair them and turn them around for sale. The dollars also can be used to demolish homes that can't be saved. Cleveland Heights sold the three-bedroom, two-bathroom house for the asking price, which was $79,900, said Susanna Niermann O’Neil, director of community services. She was one of the people who worked on the project with Rick Wagner, manager of housing programs, among others. “I just…
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Brian Davis
7:22 am on Monday, June 6, 2011
Yes, Lakewood Community Services has the information available on their website here: http://www.lcsclakewood.org/#!programs-and-services/vstc1=page-4 Lakewood has really done the project correctly and by January 2011 had used 67% of the funds. They are well on their way to using the $900,000 that they received from the federal stimulus. Brian Davis NEOCH more ›