EAST CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A total of five homes caught fire in the early morning on Wednesday, June 13. The fire took place in East Cleveland off 125th street in Superior. There are no fatalities on the scene, but a lot of damage to several houses. The house where the fire originally started was burned […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson announced Thursday morning a strategy to remove blighted homes from Cleveland neighborhoods. The strategy is part of the Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative, which is aimed at improving Cleveland’s neighborhoods. According to the Mayor Jackson’s office, the program will demolish and rehab hundreds of blighted homes by the end of […]
AKRON, Ohio – Akron police executed search warrants Thursday afternoon in connection with a fatal fire that killed seven people earlier this week. Authorities searched two homes on Hillcrest Street, just around the corner from the house that was destroyed Monday, according to Akron police. News 5 saw investigators carrying boxes from the homes. AKRON […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Slavic Village Recovery (SVR) says two completely renovated properties have been sold and are homes to proud families on E 54th Street. With more homes currently under construction and a group of eager buyers, SVR anticipates welcoming many more new residents to Slavic Village in the coming year. Two additional […]
CLEVELAND – Samantha Paizs and her fiancé, John Hall, will soon move into a completely refurbished home in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood. It’s a house that is located on the same street where Paizs grew up. At one time, the house was nearly condemned, but was saved by the ongoing Slavic Village Recovery program. […]
CLEVELAND – Cleveland city council members Zack Reed and Jeff Johnson held a news conference in front of a home that is now on its way to being restored and will soon be rented to a new family. It’s a home Reed and Johnson report was obtained from the Cuyahoga Land Bank and was set […]
LORAIN, Ohio – The city of Lorain is committed to taking down condemned homes that can’t be saved. Mayor Chase Ritenauer launched a massive demolition program, that started with 4 homes taken down in less than an hour, by multiple wrecking crews. “Today is huge. We fought long and hard for this when I took […]
CLEVELAND - Several organizations are coming together to combat a major and costly problem in northeast Ohio. The problem is the growing number of vacant homes in the area. Some estimates show more than 30,000 abandoned and condemned homes are depleting neighborhoods in our area. According to the Cuyahoga County Land Bank, these homes have cost northeast Ohio $1 billion in lost property value and tens of millions of dollars in lost property taxes, in the past five years alone.
BEREA, OH (WOIO) – Baldwin Wallace College is expanding. Private homes in the heart of the campus are now being relocated to another place so the college can expand. BW is working with the residents to make the growth as painless as possible. “The neighbors and the college got together and took a hard look at […]
The city of Detroit is offering about 200 free and reduced price homes to police officers living outside the city limits to try and revitalize the city. Detroit is seeing a housing crisis that was sparked by a huge decline in the population. The city’s population dropped 25% in the past decade, according to Census Bureau. […]