Press Coverage


Ian Beniston wants Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. to keep doing this year what it did in last year – but more of it. That means not only increasing the scope of its programs but adding a new one.

Many cities are finding that something as simple as installing a split rail fence around a cleared and mowed vacant lot not only fights urban blight, but it can also help fight crime.

Many cities are finding that something as simple as installing a split rail fence around a cleared and mowed vacant lot not only fights urban blight, it can help fight crime.

Banks filing expedited foreclosures on abandoned and vacant properties will no longer be able to use plywood to board up those houses.

There are concerns about what exactly a new statewide ban on plywood for certain vacant properties will mean for the Mahoning Valley. One nonprofit in Warren is worried that it could cost them astronomically more to board up homes but a state lawmaker says that won't be the case.