housing conditions

The tenants say conditions at the building on Hampton Road began deteriorating about a year ago. They're getting support from a group involved in a successful 2023 campaign to hold absentee landlords accountable.

Cleveland City Council President Blaine Griffin said the city is working on a new process to declare neglected rental buildings a nuisance.

Renters in East Akron are forming tenants' unions to press for fixes to neglected housing problems.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s administration hopes to improve housing conditions by placing outreach workers with nonprofits across the city. The $1 million program would fund 14 “engagement specialist” positions with community development corporations, the nonprofit groups that help with neighborhood planning and other local work. The engagement specialists would send letters to property owners and work with homeowners and landlords to fix up housing in need of repair. Cleveland would spend another $500,000 to pay residents back for repainting home exteriors.