What can Cleveland learn from Philadelphia’s ambitious experiment in water billing?
Water has increasingly become more expensive for the people struggling to make ends meet.
Water has increasingly become more expensive for the people struggling to make ends meet.
It’s a happy ending to a sad, sordid chapter in the city’s history: Cleveland City Council last week voted to use $750,000-800,000 from its Neighborhood Transformation Initiative to help low-income tenants in the city’s Buckeye neighborhood stay in their homes. About 40 lease-purchase renters were defrauded by their former landlord, the Buckeye Shaker Square Development Corporation (BSSDC). The city will provide them with low-dollar mortgages and forgivable down payment assistance so they can become homeowners.
Community Housing Solutions helps to keep vulnerable Cuyahoga County residents safe by using federal, state and city dollars to make repairs to their homes, especially mechanical systems like furnaces and hot water tanks.