SitemapSome neighborhoods across the city are seeing something unusual this summer – 16 new homes being built.
The Mahoning County Land Bank, the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., Mercy Health – Youngstown, Ohio’s Welcome Home Ohio program and the city celebrated with other partners at 215 Upland Ave. on Wednesday, the site of a future single-family, three bedroom, two bathroom home.
“YNDC has the data that indicates we’ve had next to no housing development in the last 20 years,” said Debora Flora, executive director of the Mahoning County Land Bank. “And so that is a contributing factor in the lack of affordable housing and the lack of housing in general here.”
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