Ongoing Campaign Against Vision Property Management Continues to Make Progress with Settlement of Lawsuits by Community Legal Aid and City of Youngstown

Monday, December 30, 2019

In December 2019 Vision Property Management settled a lawsuit with Community Legal Aid for $260,300. The settlement will benefit nine residents who were targeted by Vision Property Management's predatory practices.

The City of Youngstown also reached a settlement for $65,000.The predatory practices of Vision Property Management in the City of Youngstown were first documented by ACTION, YNDC, and neighborhood groups beginning in the winter of 2016. The groups worked together to organize residents, vendees, and other impacted persons on a multi year campaign that included: a receivership action on a Vision Property Management owned property, a bus trip to Vision Property Management's corporate office and homes of their executives in South Carolina in March 2018, postcards sent to their executives homes, continued partnerships with local media to highlight the impact of their predatory practices, introduction of state legislation by State Representative Michele Lepore-Hagan to address predatory land contracts, passage of a city ordinance by Youngstown City Council in February 2019, and partnership with Community Legal Aid to assist impacted vendees and lessees targeted by Vision Property Management which culminated in reaching a successful settlement as a result of the lawsuit against Vision Property Management. Big thanks to everyone that participated in this effort!