Posted July 14, 200519 yr From the 7/14 DDN Experts warn vacant properties endanger region By Joanne Huist Smith and Jaclyn Giovis Dayton Daily News DAYTON | When Joann Smith lounges on the porch of her home on Paul Laurence Dunbar Street, she often sits with her back to the road. This helps her to avoid the view of five dilapidated, vacant houses that blight her otherwise tidy neighborhood. "Sometimes we see raccoons running out of the houses. Windows are broken. That means somebody is crawling in there at night." Smith said. "I'd rather walk out my door and see a vacant lot than look at this crap across my street. I love sitting on my porch ... but sometimes I just get disgusted and think, 'Why don't I just move?' " Read More..
July 14, 200519 yr It would be nice if the MVRP puts this online, the way they did the Miami Valley Metropatterns study. I would like to see how it jives with what I was finding out when I was looking at the vacancy and abandonment numbers in the census as part of that Wright-Dunbar thread I posted a while back...
February 11, 200619 yr From the 2/6/06 Dayton Business Journal: Officials plan to start agency to control blight John Wilfong DBJ Staff Reporter Regional development and housing officials are starting to piece together a plan to form a land-banking agency for the Dayton area. A land bank would allow local officials to take control of dilapidated, foreclosed properties more quickly and return them to productive use. The need for such an agency emerged from regional talks arranged by the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission to address the growing problems posed by the rising number of vacant structures throughout the region. Proponents said a land bank could go a long way in fighting blight problems plaguing area neighborhoods. Montgomery County alone has an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 vacant structures. Read More...
April 25, 200619 yr From the 4/25/06 Dayton Daily News: LOOKING OUT FOR YOU City wants to tackle blighted properties By Joanne Huist Smith Staff Writer DAYTON | Harry White hates the drive down Anna Street to his mother's aging, but tidy home. As he makes the turn onto Anna from West Third Street, he passes a double with broken windows, another house damaged twice by fire, then one with siding stripped off as high as the thieves could reach. Read More...
December 25, 200618 yr From the 12/1/06 DDN: Group wants city of Dayton to tear down abandoned duplex Residents say structure on Oxford Avenue is unsafe, noting it has 5 feet of water in its lower level. By Joanne Huist Smith Staff Writer Friday, December 01, 2006 DAYTON — — About 20 Dayton View residents got a lesson in community activism Thursday and created an action plan to bring down a dilapidated duplex at 325/327 Oxford Ave. they feel is unsafe. Five feet of standing water floods the lower level. Upper floors are collapsing. The front door and several windows have been secured by the city, but others remain open to the elements, vagrants and kids. "We couldn't go outside this summer because of the mosquitoes. Now, I'm afraid the water in the basement will freeze and bring the whole house down," said William Steward, who lives next door. Read More...
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