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Thursday, March 12, 2020
The Youngstown Housing Task Force met Tuesday night to discuss the next steps the group will take to address housing quality issues affecting Youngstown's neighborhoods.
The group reviewed an analysis of problem landlords prepared by Neighborhood Planner Tom Hetrick to begin planning next steps in its Landlord Accountability campaign, and reviewed progress toward addressing neglect in Youngstown's group homes and proposed policy changes as part of its Quality Group Homes campaign. Additionally, the Task Force voted to take a stand against new rule changes regarding the Community Reinvestment Act that would allow banks to legally redline neighborhoods and to ask our public officials to do the same. The Task Force will also send letters to U.S. Senators Brown and Portman encouraging them to support a bill that would add protections against the use of predatory land contracts in neighborhoods across the country.