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[AllanY2525]

As far as abandoned homes, the city doesn't need to reduce the number of abandoned homes on
the demo list - still way to many for current population and many are too far gone now.  The more
streets and blocks come off the map the lower the cost of the city - this part of the 2010 plan
still applies.

The city will continue to shrink until the job market increases enough to support the number of
people - a balance, as it were.  If the 3-D printing stuff takes off, it will bring some more good
paying jobs to the city, in time - including ancillary businesses.  I have faith in the private
sector.

Then, and only then, will the city need more housing stock - be it existing homes or new
construction.

As far as crime and drugs, city needs to continue to put more officers on the street, get more
involved with the community - the getting involved part is aside from politics and directly between
the police force and the citizens of Youngstown.  More informants means the cops the city can
afford getting more drug dealers off the streets - these are the majority of the violent offenders
that make the streets unsafe.

Continue to work with FBI, etc.

[Towntalk]

 Where is no question about the fact that Youngstown has been getting some positive news coverage lately such as the positive story that recently ran in the New York Times, and today's news about the Youngstown Incubator, and this is good, but it doesn't change the fact that Youngstown is a very sick city.

As I pointed out in a post elsewhere Youngstown has terminal cancer and our local leadership is so sidetracked by peripheral issues that nothing is being done to treat the cancer, and that is a pathetic position for us to be in.

Is Youngstown worth saving? The folks living in the suburbs will say no, and some of their arguments have merit, yet our current crop of leaders have closed their eyes and ears while they vigorously pursue their own agendas none of which address the core problems that plague Youngstown.

How will going from 7 to 5 wards stem the drug and prostitution trade that is prevalent in the 6^th Ward? How many more policemen can we put in the Police force with the savings that may be made? One, two,  three? And what good is that going to do?

How will it reduce the number of abandoned homes that need to be demolished?

Can anyone point to any part of the East Side that is worth saving? There are many parts of the 6^th Ward that are worth saving, protecting and improving upon, but the same can not be said for the 2^nd ward.

Certainly there are areas of all four sides of town that are slums, but none are as bad as what is found in the 2^nd ward, yet the 2^nd ward councilman is less than useless, yet in terms of area, the 2^nd ward is the largest ward in the city.

To borrow a saying from our British brethren, our leaders both public and private need to pull up their socks and start dealing with the real problems that plague our city.

[Towntalk]

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