The Youngstown 2010 Plan

[solomia]

I'm glad that someone see's like I. I lost my job at sparkles on market and midlothian. I am 50 so no one has hired me yet.  So nowMy home is going in forclosure and will be forced to relocate where I can survive.

[jay]

The 2010 Plan will soon be available at the public libraries.  Other viewing locations and internet copies of the maps can be found at this link.

http://www.youngstown2010.com/plan/plan.htm

[kitten44505]

It seems to me that it is self evident why neighborhoods are deteriorating ... certainly a major reason is the number of rentals verses home ownership, and just how can we force low income folks to fix up homes they do not own, and lack the power to force absentee landlords to take on the responsability?

If someone could come up with a legal way to force landlords to fix up their holdings, please offer the idea to the city.

We can talk till we're blue in the face about the problem, but the problem is not resolved thanks to the courts and existing laws that preclude seizing sub-standard housing unless it poses a severe hazard.

The city could block out sub-standard neighborhoods and try to take them by eminent domane, then demolish the lot, but where would the money come from? And where would we put the families that would be displaced?

It's going to take many years to beautify all the run down neighborhoods and millions of dollars that the city nor the state have.

YSU has it in it's power to do what needs to be done in the area of the University, but outside of that district, they can't be expected to do what needs to be done.

[jay]

I attended the unveiling of the Youngstown 2010 Plan on Thursday, January 27.   Where were the details to make the plan work?  As with the Neighborhood Cluster Sessions, the 2010 Plan did not address the basic problems of the city.  For example, it did not discuss the underlying reasons why neighborhood deteriorate and why people move elswhere.