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23-unit historic building near Shaker Square gets total rehab from local owner, offers affordable rents

By Lee Chilcote ● Development ● April 20, 2023

Owner-developer Rakefet Landes bought the foreclosed, vacant property at a sheriff’s sale in 2018 and has been working since then to rehab the apartment building.

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Op-Ed: It’s time to renew the fight against housing voucher discrimination

By Nicole Roberts ● Social Equity ● February 13, 2023

Discrimination against renters holding Section 8 vouchers is legal, even though this disproportionately affects Black people and people in other protected classes. Nicole Roberts argues that changes in city and county political offices make now the time to act to prevent source of income discrimination.

Former teen mom Linda Howard mothers young mothers, builds political power

By Caitlin Johnson ● Social Equity ● October 13, 2022

Linda Howard makes it her life’s work to provide care to young moms when family and governmental and nonprofit assistance aren’t enough. She provides person-to-person help with material goods, low-cost rent, mental health care, and mentoring – and she’d do even more, if it weren’t for a decade-old conviction that bars her from participation in some efforts.

Cleveland renters with vouchers struggle to find housing

By Daniel Polletta ● Social Equity ● January 13, 2022

Housing rights activists and community groups in Cleveland are hoping to convince Mayor Bibb and city council to adopt renters protections that would make source of income discrimination illegal.