A grant of $2.4 million under the Ohio Department of Development’s new Welcome Home Ohio program will bring home ownership to 12 Mahoning County buyers who likely otherwise could not afford it, officials said. The funds will enable the grantee, the Mahoning County Land Bank, in collaboration with the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., to build six single-family homes, renovate six others and sell them all to qualifying buyers (those with incomes of 80 percent of the area’s median income or less).
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