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The members urged state lawmakers to take legislative action to strengthen controls that will prevent neglect and abuse in state-licensed residential facilities.

When the housing bubble burst, it left a trail of dilapidated homes in Ohio’s cities and rural communities. A decade later, that gave birth to a new problem for those communities: lease-to-own deals that promised a piece of the American dream but often turned out to be nightmares.

Senator Sherrod Brown was in Youngstown Monday talking to people who have struggled to find affordable housing and housing experts. One of the big obstacles discussed—the way people are renting or getting into land contracts for houses that are substandard.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Cleveland, D-Ohio, invited Durkin and other local housing experts and advocates to a roundtable discussion on the obstacles to affordable housing Monday at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County along Wick Avenue.

Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown got a clearer picture of some of the Valley’s housing problems on Monday at a meeting with local groups and city leaders.