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Middletown receives $2.1mil for housing renovation

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Topic: Middletown receives $2.1mil for housing renovation
Posted By: Bwood
Subject: Middletown receives $2.1mil for housing renovation
Date Posted: Dec 30 2008 at 3:41pm

The grants can be used to:

• Establish temporary land banks of abandoned or foreclosed properties to facilitate redevelopment.

• Demolish blighted structures.

• Purchase foreclosed or abandoned parcels.

• Redevelop vacant, abandoned or foreclosed properties; and

• Offer purchase and redevelopment assistance to income-eligible buyers of foreclosed or abandoned properties.



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Replies:
Posted By: tomahawk35
Date Posted: Dec 30 2008 at 10:11pm
My understanding of this grant is that Middletown has applied along with 14 other cities in the state and hasn't been approved as of today for such grant unless they can show true cause for it.

Posted By: MadisonMom
Date Posted: Dec 31 2008 at 3:10pm
All the city needs to do is video tape the city. Downtown and around. Not the east end.

Posted By: tomahawk35
Date Posted: Dec 31 2008 at 11:24pm
They may get more if that's the case.

Posted By: Bwood
Date Posted: Jan 13 2009 at 4:53pm
If it wasn't approved when I posted, it is now.

http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/01/13/mj011409nspgrant.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=16 - http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/01/13/mj011409nspgrant.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=16

Maybe this will get some contracts for Middletown construction companies that are probably taking a hit from the recession like As-Built Construction, or Martin Construction.


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Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Jan 14 2009 at 7:09am
The article in today's Journal stated that some of the money could be used to acquire and rehab blighted homes for the purpose of providing low income people opportunities to purchase these houses, once rehabbed. I thought that the city was trying to get out of the real estate business. Didn't they say, years ago, that they wanted to unload all of the properties that the city owned? What happens if the city uses this money, purchases blighted properties, rehabs the properties, and can't sell them? The city ends up having many " Swallens building" properties that they can't unload. Isn't this a crap shoot from the start? If the houses remain empty, does the city own them, or does the government own them since they provided the money in the first place? Finally. doesn't this whole situation only encourage and aggravate the low income problem we have here in this town? Aren't we growing more Section 8 possibilities here?

Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Jan 14 2009 at 10:04am
Vet, I would hope that the money would go first toward the blighted buildings that are all over Middletown. If they do that I don't think they will have any money to rehab homes.
Maybe Ginger Smith will provide a list of properties that will receive money from this grant.


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