housing

Cleveland City Council approved $18 million toward the Cleveland Housing Investment Fund.

Increases from the state-mandated sexennial appraisal's results ranged from a low of 15% in Hunting Valley to a high of 67% in East Cleveland.

The program will renovate 100 homes in Cleveland's middle neighborhoods to try to retain residents typically lost to surrounding suburban communities.

It's the seventh year of what the nonprofits call the Building Great Futures initiative, which so far has provided paying work for 70 students and rehabbed 16 homes for local families, which are then sold by Habitat for Humanity to families with a zero-interest mortgage.

Legal Aid of Greater Cleveland has filed a complaint on behalf of the tenants.

Cleveland’s recently-passed Residents First legislation will take a swing at something the city has struggled to do for years: hold out-of-state and absent landlords accountable to provide livable conditions.

The new positions, most of which will be entry level inspectors, will help bolster Cleveland's new Residents First program.

The proposed program would benefit about 300 Cleveland homeowners.

Cleveland is cracking down on out-of-state and absent landlords after City Council passed a sweeping housing code overhaul Monday.

Opponents to the plan for Broadway Commons are raising concerns about a similar facility in nearby Elyria that's affected businesses and police in that city.