SitemapThe Mahoning County Land Bank received a $5 million state grant that will go toward the construction of 19 new affordable houses: 16 in Youngstown and one each in Struthers, Campbell and Sebring. This is the second grant the land bank received this year from the Ohio Department of Development’s Welcome Home Ohio program. It received a $2.4 million grant earlier this year for six new homes to be built on Mineral Springs Avenue on Youngstown’s South Side and for the renovation of six existing homes.
“We’ll have 31 affordable housing opportunities coming from the funding,” said Debora Flora, the land bank’s executive director. The land bank’s board of directors met Tuesday to sign the grant agreement with the state and for a contract with the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. to be the project’s general contractor.
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