Mahoning County Land Bank secures $500,000 to demolish houses, buildings - Mahoning Matters

The Mahoning County Land Bank recently secured $500,000 in state funds to demolish houses and commercial buildings next year and is in line for more dollars to support potentially hundreds of additional demolitions in the next several years, officials say.

“The end of Youngstown’s inventory of vacant, abandoned, unsafe and beyond-repair housing is in sight,” Debora Flora, executive director of the land bank, said in a news release.

“The initial funds will allow us to raze about 40 houses,” she said. 

The land bank and its partners believe that, after many years of demolitions, Youngstown is about 800 demolitions away from clearing the city’s inventory of beyond-repair housing, the release states. 

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