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Where's the best place to find home sale data? I've been using zillow but have found that they don't have all the sales or they're added at different times so I miss some.

Can you expand on what conclusions you're drawing from the data? I think you're saying that there are lots of houses moving hands but no one buying them to live in, but to me that would point to outside investors buying and renting them out rather than flippers. Is there something I'm missing?

This article talks about the topic, the pros and cons of merging, and substantiates my claim that Akron officials do not want to merge with Cleveland (though they do want to merge with Canton). The article also claims the threshold for commuters is 25%, so I may have been using an outdated MSA definition (it is from the 90's) or it could be a case of bad journalism.

As someone who thinks this is mostly pointless, I think there is an argument to be made that Summit County should be included in Cleveland MSA rather than Akron because of item 3B... 35,941 commuters to Cuyahoga and 10,264 commuters to Portage. Doesn't really seem like there's a data backed reason to merge Cleveland/Akron into a single MSA though. There's only 11,872 commuters from Portage to Cuyahoga which I don't think meets any of the qualifications in item 2. I'm dumb. Akron is in Summit, not Portage. In that case Portage county should definitely be included in Akron's MSA... 19,750 commuters Portage->Summit and 11,872 commuters Portage->Cuyahoga Edit Because I was interested, I had to see if there was an argument for merging Akron/Cleveland (even though Akron has made it clear they prefer to be on their own). 14.15% of Summit's workers commute to Cuyahoga, so they don't quite meet the first qualifier of section 3. The population density is 593.8/mi^2 so if commuting ever ticked up above 15% there'd be enough people to merge the two.

I would be shocked if the data isn't out there in a public form, the thresholds are definitely defined and available. Taken from the Federal Register on March 30, 1990—Vol. 55, No. 62, pp. 12154-12160: EDIT Found the commuting data too, data from 2011-2015 can be found at the link here, it's in table 1.

Thanks, after some more digging found info on the historic tax credit awarded for Tinnerman which mentions three houses being renovated as part of the program, although none of them were designated as historic. The other two sit across Fulton. edit to correct the link to right press release.

Does anyone know what's going on with this old house next to Tinnerman Lofts on Fulton? https://www.redfin.com/OH/Cleveland/2054-Fulton-Rd-44113/home/139892812 It was in rough shape 6 months ago but has had some very significant work done in the interim. I thought Tinnerman would be tearing it down for their courtyard, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's also apparently not owned by Tinnerman (owned by FRHOUSES LLC). I did some googling for the address and found this article about some of the building's history as a Hungarian club: http://www.clevelandmemory.org/hungarian/articles/burnmort.html but otherwise couldn't find anything useful about its future plans. Did a bit more searching and found a permit to renovate the exterior filed by the Dalad Group, no mention of the property on their website though.

Is additional school funding something that the mayor can directly control? This is one argument against the tax abatement policies we currently have in place, but most of that revenue is basically deferred. According to the study released by the city the schools should be getting an additional $0.5-2M every year for the next 15 years or so. I just looked at the CMSD budget though, and that extra revenue is basically a pittance when compared with the total budget of $1B. I'm shocked by the size of the spending though... where is the $404M of local revenue coming from when property taxes collected by the city were only $37.9M in 2019?

Have any other cities (large or small) implemented a publicly funded option like this in the US? I think it's more prevalent in other countries, but I honestly have no idea how common it is. Edit Looks like there are very few public boarding schools in the US according to this website, and most are targeted at a subset of the population like the blind and deaf: https://boardingschools.us/public-boarding-schools/

This is just a gut feel, but it seems like programs funded with the goal of creating a stable home life would be a good thing to fund then. More jobs close to people who can work them, better public transit, easier access to food and healthcare, etc. etc.

A common trope on the Cleveland subreddit is that the Cleveland school district sucks, and that the only options are to send the kids to private school or to move to the burbs. Looking at Ohio's report card here: https://www.cleveland.com/news/g66l-2019/09/999687f12c8117/ohio-school-districts-ranked-1-to-608-by-report-cards-performance-index.html CMSD ranks out at one of the worst in the state. My question is, what can be done to improve the school district? Are there any studies on suggestions for what can be done? Trying to find some more objective numbers, using this source: https://www.niche.com/k12/d/cleveland-municipal-school-district-oh/ it looks our teacher to student ratio is lower and the expenses per student are higher than the national average. Is throwing more money at the problem a solution? Paying teachers more to attract better teachers? What about funding for extra-curriculars? I'm curious what others here think the solution might be, ideally with studies or reports to back up their claims.

Almost 6 months and I still haven't gotten my official permit issued for a deck upgrade over my garage.

First Bailey Bridge townhomes are up on zillow. Not as much of a fan with the higher detail on these renderings. Hopefully in real life they look a bit better. I'll take the extra density over an overgrown junkyard any day though. $330k for 1,362sf... $242.3/sf https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/2077372598_zpid/

I'd vote for a wet sock over Frank Jackson.

I'm unfamiliar with this section and why it's noteworthy... Is the list homes hitting the market at >$1M? That would seem to indicate that prices on homes are rising? Or are you trying to say that high value homes are hitting the market which means people are leaving?

Thank you for the data! I had to double check, and the last income tax increase was Jan 1 2016, so that is apples to apples. That is honestly astounding to me, it means that there's an additional $5B of income from Cleveland's residents in 3 years if my math is right? ($127M in additional tax, 2.5% tax rate for $5B increase?) The flip side question is would people be moving into the city without the tax abatement, and that one is much harder to answer.

This talk about taxes reminded me of a reddit thread I saw the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/j8k7hc/do_you_get_the_feeling_that_the_city_of_cleveland/ Obviously some conflicting opinions there, but it got me thinking... does Cleveland have any measurable published data on the effects of the tax abatement? My own feeling is that it has been an overall net positive for the city, but I don't have any data to back that up. Just the observation that things are improving quickly in some hot neighborhoods as well as starting to spill over into the areas nearby the hot ones.

Anyone know what the full list is? I can't find a single source but I think Chicago, Minneapolis, and Indy are all ahead of us currently. Couldn't find a source for Chicago, but google says ~50k and ~30k for Minny/Indy.

From https://www.apartments.com/tinnerman-lofts-cleveland-oh/tnzcly8/ looks like apartments are available starting Nov 10th. $1510 for a 765sf 1 bedroom is the cheapest immediately available, there are two units for $1220 available Dec 1 that are a bit smaller. Tops out at $2755 for a 2br 1,625sf loft. Also, there's a pizza oven planned in the courtyard! I wonder if neighborhood residents could sneak in access ?.

I believe @KJP talked about both the scrapcom building and 3400 Vega being considered for apartment conversions. I've also reached out to Kerry McCormack about a red line station here because of the density being added as well as adding red line greenway access. He says it's something that's been brought up before and agrees it would be a good spot. No comment on timelines or the seriousness of said discussions. I reached out to Knez about the townhomes going in at the corner of Fulton/Bailey, no comment was given on timeline, but they plan to build in stages. The first six (of what appears to be 57) homes will be fronting Fulton and ~1400sf in the mid $300's (~$250sf) which is a pretty high mark for new construction in this section of SOLO. Finally, some construction update on infill housing. Cleveland Bricks is building these, there's a little bit about them on the bottom of this page: https://clevelandbricks.com/future-projects/. They're a little bit large for my tastes compared to the houses around them, but overall pretty faithful for infill homes. The density is great, they fill up basically the entire lot. I just realized the angle is bad on my photo... the red/black house to the right of the new houses is two stories, the second story doesn't show in the photo though.

Anyone know any updates on this project? Knez's website here: https://knez.net/townhomes/bailey-bridge-townhomes/ says that there will be 56 townhomes starting in the mid $300's but no dates or floor plans or anything are available yet. Just coming soon.

Which space? They have a completed one by their main taphouse, on Lorain road. This new one is the same concept but for Phunkenship in Clark-Fulton.

Cudell is my bet as well. You're seeing the first wave of renovations start in that neighborhood. Tons of houses with great bones, just need new paint and cosmetic updates. It's still rough on the edges, but the value you can find in that neighborhood is like nothing else in the city imo.

It's saying that financial burdens from covid make it a bad time to ask for an increase, not that the increase is because of covid.

I believe all the units fronting Bailey and Fulton will have proper front porches to integrate better with the neighborhood. I'll have to go back and see if I can find renderings from the CPC live stream, but I believe I heard the Knez representative say that. edit: D'oh, my screenshot does show Fulton/Bailey... those are the tiniest "porches" I've ever seen! I also forgot to report that I reached out to Kerry McCormack a while ago about an unrelated issue and asked about/supported a red line rapid station at Fulton. Kerry acknowledged that the rapid station on Fulton was something that has been discussed in the past, and that it would be a great spot for one. I know Ken has talked about a few TOD developments in the vicinity, these townhomes and a few high rises or industrial conversions would really benefit from the red line addition. Not to mention a way to access the red line greenway that passes right below them.