Press Coverage


In recognition of National Homeownership Month, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) Board presented the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation with the 2014 Spirit of Homeownership Excellence Award (SHEA) yesterday.

Say to someone, “If you build it,” and millions worldwide will answer, “They will come.”

Ian J. Beniston has been named executive director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., succeeding the agency’s founding executive director, Presley L. Gillespie, who resigned in May.

Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp.’s board of directors today announced that it has named Ian Beniston as executive director.

As in many areas of the city, the Powerstown neighborhood on the southeast side has fallen on hard times.