SitemapIn one critical area of the city of Youngstown’s identity, things certainly will be looking up come 2025. After decades of slow but steady work to tear down aging, dilapidated, blighted and public health-threatening properties in every quadrant of the city, efforts will begin in earnest early in the year to build up the city’s housing stock.
Since 2007, an eye-popping 6,939 vacant houses have been demolished in Youngstown with 424 homes taken down this year. According to Ian Beniston, executive director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., “We’ve all but eliminated housing in need of demolition.”
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