Right, just pointing out 8% is really high for Akron, so definitely something up over there.

I was on my way to downtown Akron earlier this week and took my usual route of exiting Route 8 on Tallmadge Ave, but before I got to Main, the road was closed due to construction and had to weave my way through the side streets off Tallmadge.  I was surprised to see what appeared to be a large immigrant population on those streets.  Appeared to be southeast Asian, but not sure.  I'm talking about the neighborhood to the southeast of the intersection of Tallmadge and Main.  Any info on this?

 

You're talking about the North Hill neighborhood of Akron, which may well be Akron's next sleeper neighborhood when Highland Square either fully gentrifies or flames out. 

 

Many of those Asians you passed are asylum-seekers from Burma, as well as lesser-known Bhutan.  We also have a solid cohort of Nepalese, I believe.

 

The ABJ ran an article on some of them last year: http://www.ohio.com/news/local/stores-in-north-hill-neighborhood-of-akron-reflect-influx-of-asian-immigrants-1.525919

 

The <a href="http://iiakron.org/">International Institute of Akron</a> at the corner of Tallmadge & Dayton, three blocks east of Tallmadge & Main, is the primary impetus for the Southeast Asian presence there.  It helps with <a href="http://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/organization.393243-International_Institute_of_Akron">asylum seeking, among other services</a>.

 

The <a href="http://iiakron.org/refugees/">refugees map</a> on the IIA's web site also shows Thailand, Afghanistan, and Iraq as countries of origin for refugees it has helped resettle in that neighborhood; I actually hadn't been aware until I just checked that link it was taking a hand in the Afghan and Iraqi displaced-persons issues.  I'd be interested in knowing how many we've accepted from those countries, considering our involvement there.  I'm still confident that the lion's share come from Burma/Myanmar, Bhutan, and Nepal, though.

^Interesting.  We have had a rather large influx from Burma and Bhutan over the past 5 or so years in the 'Village of Bluestone' areas of Cleveland Hts and South Euclid, as well.

^Interesting.  We have had a rather large influx from Burma and Bhutan over the past 5 or so years in the 'Village of Bluestone' areas of Cleveland Hts and South Euclid, as well.

 

A lot of the southern Asian neighborhoods (other than Vietnamese) are triggered by medical people either going to school or staying here after they are done, and bringing their families.  That is a big part of how the Indian communities took root.  My understanding is this is happening with the Burmese.  There's a lot of political strife back home.

We also have a lot in Lakewood, especially at the east end along Detroit Avenue where housing is more affordable. In fact, we have some businesses in the area (grocery, variety, etc) that cater to refugees from Nepal and Bhutan. The ladies wear very colorful dresses and I see the men waiting at bus stops at 6 a.m.

^Interesting.  We have had a rather large influx from Burma and Bhutan over the past 5 or so years in the 'Village of Bluestone' areas of Cleveland Hts and South Euclid, as well.

 

A lot of the southern Asian neighborhoods (other than Vietnamese) are triggered by medical people either going to school or staying here after they are done, and bringing their families.  That is a big part of how the Indian communities took root.  My understanding is this is happening with the Burmese.  There's a lot of political strife back home.

 

Not the case here.  These are not 'professionals'.  They are refugees, probably not very highly educated.  My understanding is the same members of the Jewish community who aided the Russian immigration to the Cleveland community several decades ago have been facilitating this as well.

We also have a lot in Lakewood, especially at the east end along Detroit Avenue where housing is more affordable. In fact, we have some businesses in the area (grocery, variety, etc) that cater to refugees from Nepal and Bhutan. The ladies wear very colorful dresses and I see the men waiting at bus stops at 6 a.m.

 

My neighbors, not sure if from Burma or Nepal, sit outside their front yards all the time. But they don't use lawn furniture; they simply crouch down. I mentioned this to a yoga instructor friend and she believes it's much healthier that way. And that, as wealthy westerners, our reliance on comfortable furniture ends up as a detriment in the long run.

^^There may be a few resettlement agencies at work, but I think the Nepalese immigrants in Cleveland Heights were sponsored by West Side Ecumenical Ministry (WSEM). http://blog.cleveland.com/sunpress/2011/01/nepalese_refugees_flock_to_cle.html

yes there seems to be a wave of burma/myanmar, bhutan and nepal immigration recently, in nyc too:

 

http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/immigrants-nepal-burma-grow-census-category-article-1.944141

 

this seems to be happening for various reasons, not sure why really, but these are certainly groups to focus on helping to come to cleveland. one thing i heard and read about is that lately myanmar is kicking out the muslims. the earthquake tragedy is another traumatizing event of course.

They are causing 'black flight' from the apartment buildings along Noble Rd. and Green Rd., south of Monticello.

From Denmark to Uganda to Cleveland, refugees can be an investment, not a burden...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/10/the-big-myth-about-refugees/?postshare=1131441926583964

Bring on the Refugees! Joe Cimperman and Cleveland Leaders Talk Strategies

 

Posted By Sam Allard on Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:11 PM

 

Last week, Cleveland welcomed its very first Syrian refugee family to Cleveland.

 

"We're looking forward to helping them rebuild their shattered lives," Dever said.

 

After remarks by Cimperman, Mayor Frank Jackson, County Executive Armond Budish, the Ariel International Center's effusive Radhika Reddy, and Stacy Dever, breakout sessions explored individual topics related to the refugee experience: transportation, housing, education, health, etc.

 

Cimperman said that the goals of the workshop were threefold: building relationships among city leaders and those working in relevant refugee services fields; educating one another about the issues; and creating a blue print to make Cleveland the number one city in the county for refugees in five years.

 

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2015/09/10/bring-on-the-refugees-joe-cimperman-and-cleveland-leaders-talk-strategies

^ i wish the mayor would take the lead, but that is heartening to hear about.

 

obama wants to up the syrian refugee numbers. there is opportunity for cle to be a host city:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/white-house-obama-wants-to-admit-more-syrian-refugees/

 

^ i wish the mayor would take the lead, but that is heartening to hear about.

 

obama wants to up the syrian refugee numbers. there is opportunity for cle to be a host city:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/white-house-obama-wants-to-admit-more-syrian-refugees/

 

 

Ann Coulter does have a point:  an awful lot of the refugees, at least in Europe, seem to be unaccompanied younger men.  (Of course, this is something she would notice....).

 

Not only does this suggest economic rather than political reasons for leaving, but it makes it somewhat easier to hide sleepers in their midst.

 

We need to be vigilant.  For example, there was a severe riot in a German refugee center because someone tore a Koran.  Anyone who reacted violently to something like that should not be let in.

Yes, we always need to be vigilant, but not afraid. Besides, it's not like some of "your people" (as you say) wouldn't react violently to seeing a Bible torn up by a Muslim.

Yes, we always need to be vigilant, but not afraid. Besides, it's not like some of "your people" (as you say) wouldn't react violently to seeing a Bible torn up by a Muslim.

 

I'm not a Christian.  That said, I don't think the reaction would be even comparable in terms of vehemence, except perhaps by a very few.

Good, I'm glad to see Cleveland taking a lead in this. This could be a great opportunity for the city. One of the reasons Germany is more than willing to take in so many of the Syrian refugees is that this first wave is comprised of educated people with great skills. Syria before the war had a decent educational system, and these migrants leaving there now and showing the drive and heart to make it all the way to Europe are very different than the ones who come from Somalia and Afghanistan. Cleveland would be wise to take them in, as they are the ones who will be willing to quickly get to work and contribute to their new home.

Yes, we always need to be vigilant, but not afraid. Besides, it's not like some of "your people" (as you say) wouldn't react violently to seeing a Bible torn up by a Muslim.

 

I'm not a Christian.  That said, I don't think the reaction would be even comparable in terms of vehemence, except perhaps by a very few.

 

I'm referring to those scary Ward Beaver types out in the exurbs, the cornfields and the Bible Belt.

Bring on the Refugees! Joe Cimperman and Cleveland Leaders Talk Strategies

http://t.co/cBEePtTrsl http://t.co/vrrwi6vrk0

 

Movement for US to Accept Refugees Grows | Al Jazeera America @joecimperman #CLE is ready...or really close.  http://t.co/wFEUcvQL8i

the 10k refugees are headed to 180 processing centers, including cleveland and akron:

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-13/10000-syrians-are-headed-following-180-us-refugee-processing-centers

 

The Fiancee and I were just discussing this this weekend. Such a great opportunity for NEO in general and Cleveland specifically. I am all for it.

the 10k refugees are headed to 180 processing centers, including cleveland and akron:

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-13/10000-syrians-are-headed-following-180-us-refugee-processing-centers

 

While Cleveland will likely get Syrians from this group, the map and list provided in that link is for the processing of refugees in the US, not just Syrians. As such, it does not mean any particular group of people will be sent to every city on the map or list.

 

Cleveland needs to push hard now.  Meaning yesterday. 

 

Like with any immigrant group, once roots are established here, it inherantly creates a magnet to attracting that same nationality.  Cleveland getting in early opens the door for greater numbers down the road.  Bring over the families!

Actually, Canton, at least, already has a modest-sized Syrian population, many of whom have actually been here for many years now.  They aren't Muslim, though--they're Orthodox.  The locus of the community was St. George Syrian Orthodox Church near downtown Canton.  (They used to have an awesome monthly Middle Eastern lunch fundraiser.  You were eating on paper plates, but it was really good food.  I don't even like Mediterranean food and I thought it was good.  But I digress.)

 

I wonder how much a difference that would make in terms of welcoming in more from that part of the world.  Unfortunately, it could easily turn out to be counterproductive, though I hope I'm wrong about that.  Canton could take 20,000 new people without expanding its borders an inch, just by repairing and rebuilding its existing abandoned and demolished homes.  I do think a lot of the Syrian Orthodox population in Canton today fled the Middle East decades ago to get away from Muslim violence, though, and would worry about how much of that a large, rapidly-arriving refugee population would bring with them.  Like I said, I hope I'm wrong (on both the perception and the actual reality, of course).

"In 1980, US brought in 215,000 Vietnamese in 1 year. That's the scale our response should be"

http://t.co/SUATmZuwZx #NHV #refugeeswelcome

Actually, Canton, at least, already has a modest-sized Syrian population, many of whom have actually been here for many years now.  They aren't Muslim, though--they're Orthodox.  The locus of the community was St. George Syrian Orthodox Church near downtown Canton.  (They used to have an awesome monthly Middle Eastern lunch fundraiser.  You were eating on paper plates, but it was really good food.  I don't even like Mediterranean food and I thought it was good.  But I digress.)

 

I wonder how much a difference that would make in terms of welcoming in more from that part of the world.  Unfortunately, it could easily turn out to be counterproductive, though I hope I'm wrong about that.  Canton could take 20,000 new people without expanding its borders an inch, just by repairing and rebuilding its existing abandoned and demolished homes.  I do think a lot of the Syrian Orthodox population in Canton today fled the Middle East decades ago to get away from Muslim violence, though, and would worry about how much of that a large, rapidly-arriving refugee population would bring with them.  Like I said, I hope I'm wrong (on both the perception and the actual reality, of course).

 

Youngstown has a noticeable Syrian and Lebanese population, too.  They have opened up some spectacular restaurants in the area.  I am all for welcoming in the refugees to NEO.  I believe it was Dayton that had been recognized for its Turkish population and how they (immigrants) came in opening businesses and investing in the neighborhoods they settled in.  Northern Ohio in particular has a decent sized Middle Eastern population.  Hopefully we can get that message across to refugees and migrants that there is a place here for them.

America's Leading Immigrant Cities - @CityLab - http://t.co/BRP4L7ycU7 http://t.co/jYFTHnzxU0

Dayton's mayor was the only one in Ohio to sign the letter...

 

18 U.S. Mayors To Obama: We'll Take Even More Refugees

"We will welcome the Syrian families to make homes and new lives in our cities."

Elise Foley

Immigration & Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post

Posted: 09/24/2015 03:53 PM EDT | Edited: 09/24/2015 05:09 PM EDT

 

ew York, Los Angeles, Chicago and 15 other cities are ready and willing to take in even more refugees than the Obama administration has proposed, mayors wrote in a letter to the president on Thursday.

 

"We will welcome the Syrian families to make homes and new lives in our cities," wrote the mayors, all of whom are part of the Cities United for Immigration Action coalition. "Indeed, we are writing to say that we stand ready to work with your Administration to do much more and to urge you to increase still further the number of Syrian refugees the United States will accept for resettlement."

 

"This is a challenge we can meet, and the undersigned mayors stand ready to help you meet it," they wrote.

 

MORE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mayors-letter-refugees-obama_56044aefe4b08820d91c1b86?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

I'm wondering how and why (we know the answer) Cleveland, going into 70 years of declining population, did not say "We'll take more people"?  Sometimes I get the feeling there's no hope for this town.

I'm wondering how and why (we know the answer) Cleveland, going into 70 years of declining population, did not say "We'll take more people"?  Sometimes I get the feeling there's no hope for this town.

 

When I critiqued Mayor Jackson on Twitter for not signing the letter, Councilman Cimperman came to his defense citing the Dream Neighbors project in Clark-Metro...

 

joecimperman ‏@joecimperman  3h3 hours ago

@KennyPeepers @rlsmithpd MayorJackson has been behind helping refugees in #CLE 100%, facts count, check it

 

Ken Prendergast ‏@KennyPeepers  2h2 hours ago

@joecimperman @rlsmithpd Wonder why he didn't sign the letter?

 

joecimperman ‏@joecimperman  2h2 hours ago

@KennyPeepers @rlsmithpd you should actually tour @dreamneighbors w/ me or see 1788w45. Letters? Good Actions? Better

 

 

America's become a suspicious host, German teen found out. May try again for Cleveland @susanglaser http://t.co/BC74ZVBjTG

how awful for those kids, i cant imagine. while those kinds of stories are cringeworthy and singaporean, the big picture is travel to the usa is steadily trending upward since 9/11 and is at an all time high, including travelors from their countries germany and france:

 

http://travel.trade.gov/outreachpages/inbound.general_information.inbound_overview.html

 

that gov site is interesting to poke around on - fun fact - mexican visitors to the usa outnumber chinese 8 to 1, but the chinese spend more $. more chinese please!

 

Reshape the Rust belt with immigrant talent http://t.co/RqVzuDsP6A

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson: City would welcome Syrian refugees

 

By  Leila Atassi, cleveland.com 

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on November 20, 2015 at 3:13 PM, updated November 20, 2015 at 3:22 PM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson this week joined dozens of other mayors of major U.S. cities in affirming that Syrians seeking refuge from their war-torn homeland are welcome here.

 

"The City of Cleveland has always opened her arms to refugees, regardless of where they are from," Jackson wrote Wednesday in an emailed statement.

 

Jackson joins Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings -- who all said they would help resettle Syrian refugees in their cities, despite the recent wave of panic among politicians about the perceived connections between Syrians, the Islamic State and last week's terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people.

 

Mayors of 18 other cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago also signed a letter sent to President Barack Obama in September, pledging to work with the administration to help resettle Syrian refugees in their towns.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2015/11/cleveland_mayor_frank_jackson_57.html

 

 

Syrian refugee's terrifying journey from fear and terror to new hope in Cleveland

 

By  Michael Heaton, The Plain Dealer 

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on November 20, 2015 at 1:55 PM, updated November 20, 2015 at 4:26 PM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio – "Mary" is a 27-year-old Syrian refugee who came to the United States and Cleveland four months ago. 

 

It has been a harrowing journey, almost a fatal one.

 

It started five years ago in Syria. Missiles and gunfire targeted her neighborhood. Warlords and extremists began to kidnap, rape and murder people close to her. A friend was beheaded for wearing a cross. Two female cousins just disappeared.

 

She and a few close relatives fled, by road, for Lebanon. Gunmen tried to stop them and, when they sped past the checkpoint, opened fire. The driver's mirror was shattered, but no one in the car was wounded.

 

Then came Saudi Arabia, and more religious persecution, discrimination and fear with the rise of the Islamic State.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/11/syrian_refugees_terrifying_jou.html

Global Cleveland ‏@GlobalCleveland  11m11 minutes ago

RT @joecimperman: @CleCityCouncil resolution welcoming our sisters &brothers to gr8 city of #CLE #refugeeswelcome

 

 

 

Anything that comes from the city or state level is a sideshow on this issue, though.  Immigration law is federal.  Local governments can commit more or fewer resources to enforcing it on top of the federal government's own resources, but they cannot actually change it.  Refugee quotas are set in Washington; resolutions like this serve signaling functions, but basically nothing more than that.  This is the epitome of talk being cheap.

Anything that comes from the city or state level is a sideshow on this issue, though.  Immigration law is federal.  Local governments can commit more or fewer resources to enforcing it on top of the federal government's own resources, but they cannot actually change it.  Refugee quotas are set in Washington; resolutions like this serve signaling functions, but basically nothing more than that.  This is the epitome of talk being cheap.

 

Absolutely.  But it's nice to see the City of Cleveland make overtures toward potential new residents.  Not too long ago, a different tune was sung.

Absolutely.  But it's nice to see the City of Cleveland make overtures toward potential new residents.  Not too long ago, a different tune was sung.

 

Yep. They're waving a flag saying "Come live here." This is being followed up by the actions of the city in developing a zone of supportive resources for refugees from around the world (not just Syria) in the Clark-Metro area, called the Dream Neighbors project. In response to city inquiries, RTA has proposed to expand the bus service along Clark Avenue to daily and with longer hours (albeit at the expense of service on West 65th) to provide more transportation options for the Dream Neighbors area.

Interesting national wire article with a lot of Cleveland content...

 

Why American landlords love refugee tenants

By Tribune wire reports

NOVEMBER 20, 2015 3:20 PM

 

One week a refugee family is fleeing the brutality of civil war and living in a shipping container near the Syrian border, and the next they might be moving into a furnished apartment in Cleveland.

 

...There is renewed impulse to protect the nation by turning away desperate refugee families trying to escape dangerous areas.

 

But the small group of U.S. property owners who lease homes to refugees have come to learn something that has been noticed in this heated debate: Renters from regions suffering the gravest instability tend to make the most stable tenants. Renting to refugees, it turns out, has become a surprisingly steady business.

 

For the last five years, Daryl Anderson has been buying foreclosed homes in Cleveland on the west side of the Cuyahoga River, usually for less than $8,000. He fixes them up and rents most of the homes to new arrivals from Iraq, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among other places mired in conflict. About 80 percent of the tenants in his 40 rental units are refugees.

 

MORE:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-refugee-tenants-20151120-story.html

A rebuilding city benefits in many ways from the latest wave of immigration

http://mobile.buffalonews.com/?articleRedirect=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buffalonews.com%2Fopinion%2Fbuffalo-news-editorials%2Fa-rebuilding-city-benefits-in-many-ways-from-the-latest-wave-of-immigration-20160122

Refugees can help rebuild Pittsburgh, Peduto tells summit guests

BY BOB BAUDER  | Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, 11:00 p.m.

 

Critics have called Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto a traitor and worse for his stance on wanting to resettle Syrian refugees in the city, but the mayor remains steadfast in his commitment to provide homes to 500 refugees yearly as long as service providers can handle that number.

 

Peduto on Thursday said Syrians and about 500 other immigrants who pour into the Pittsburgh region each year can help rebuild the city's blighted neighborhoods and attract businesses looking to locate in diverse cities.

 

“We have areas of the city that have lost 80 percent of its population since the 1980s,” Peduto told a gathering of about 110 people at the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. “We have blight. We have abandoned properties. We have people from all over the world who need help. We have the opportunity to rebuild communities. To rebuild neighborhoods.”

 

MORE:

http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/9905595-74/refugees-peduto-syrian

This is an interesting article about landlords liking to rent to immigrants.  Do you know what neighborhood west of the Cuyahoga river is being referred to in the article?

This is an interesting article about landlords liking to rent to immigrants.  Do you know what neighborhood west of the Cuyahoga river is being referred to in the article?

 

Probably referring to this:

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/07/dream_neighborhood_aims_to_wea.html

 

http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/features/welcomeweek082715.aspx

For some reason I could never imagine Ohio offering such a grant program or Cleveland applying for a grant if there was...

 

Grant to attract immigrants to Brockville

http://www.recorder.ca/2016/02/18/grant-to-attract-immigrants-to-brockville

From the zoning thread of all places:

 

Toronto's growth came from multiple factors. It actually started in the 1950s as the metro area took a holistic approach to designing the city the way it wanted to be -- designed around mass transit and density. This was a very brave thing to do as itsoon American companions were being decentralized around highways. Toronto acquired Cleveland's still-new streetcars and built the Yonge-Spadina subway where it wanted high-rise development to occur, unlike Cleveland which built its CTS Rapid where the path of least resistance was -- along railroad corridors with lots of aging industries.

 

Next came Toronto's Bloor-Danforth subway followed by the Lakeshore commuter rail line on the existing CN railroad from Hamilton to Oshawa in the late 1960s. Both lines were subjects of comprehensive urban planning principles, including the use of zoning, urban growth boundaries, and even real estate crown corporations (government-owned and capital-incubated companies, many of which were later sold off to the private sector). The result was high-rise residential, office and retail clusters around transit stops that produceday phenomenal transit ridership. Toronto gained a reputation as a safe city, soaring city that ran like clockwork. I remember it being called "An American city that ran like a Swiss watch."

 

So as liberals fled America during the Vietnam War and bank headquarters fled Montreal during the 1970s Liberté Quebec uprising, the well-oiled machine of Toronto was a logical destination. Many noted American liberals followed former New Yorker Jane Jacobs who fled Robert Moses' monolithic, high-speed geometric dreams and instead sought the streetcar/pedestrian scale of cities that Toronto's city fathers respected and encouraged -- including through the use of zoning which discouraged things like blank walls along sidewalks or encouraged greater density nearer to transit stops.

 

And then there was Canada's and especially Toronto'sembracing of the immigrant. It was an early acknowledgement that immigrants don't take jobs, they create them. Yes, they encourage immigrants with wealth to come to Toronto. But once they come, so do many of their extended family members. Immigrants include refugees, as Canada has a more liberal immigration policy than the USA. For example, Ukrainian refugees are generally recognized by Canada while only Crimean Tatars are recognized as refugees by the USA. Toronto welcomes immigrants by supporting them with assimilation assistance. In Toronto, they are seen by most as strengthening the city. In Cleveland, immigrants are feared as burdens on taxpayer-funded services, as diluting the political power base of those in charge or, worse, as possible terrorists. Fear is seldom an ingredient for economic growth.

 

Canada's immigration patterns are a lot like the US's a hundred years ago in that one group does not dominate.  Illegal immigration's not much of a problem either. They also don't really have any minority groups that dominate specific urban areas.  As for Toronto, it's their "premier" city by far due to Montreal's linguistic separatism:  NYC and LA combined.

 

Since no minority groups dominate, there's no strong pull against the common values being those of the host nation.

Foreign-born populations are increasing in many US cities, including throughput the Midwest and Great Lakes region -- but not in Cleveland. What are we doing wrong?

 

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/census/foreign-born-city-population-changes-data.html

From immigration lawyer Richard Herman...

 

Congrats to 20 cities awarded grants on immigrant inclusion! ‪#‎cle‬ likely didn't apply. Kudos to Akron/summit county, Columbus, Detroit, Pittsburgh, macomb county Michigan, Indy, buffalo/Syracuse. For clevelanders watching this issue, pay attention to local leaders actions, not their words. Hollow words, cheerleading, platitudes don't matter, and are really a diversion and cover for their malfeasance and parochialism. The record of inaction, while our peer cities are charging forward, speaks volumes.... ‪#‎TakingCareOfOurOwn‬

 

COMMUNITIES TO RECEIVE SUPPORT FOR WELCOMING NEW AMERICANS

March 29, 2016

TWENTY COMMUNITIES SELECTED FOR “GATEWAYS FOR GROWTH CHALLENGE” TO WELCOME AND INTEGRATE NEW AMERICANS

 

New York, NY — Building on the growing desire of civic and business leaders to attract, retain, and integrate immigrants as part of an economic growth strategy, the Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund (PNAE) and Welcoming America are pleased to announce communities that have been selected as part of the Gateways for Growth Challenge.

 

Launched in December 2015, Gateways for Growth invited communities across the United States to apply for research, technical assistance, and matching grants to support the development and implementation of multi-sector strategic plans for welcoming and integrating new Americans.

 

MORE:

http://www.welcomingamerica.org/news/gateways-growth-challenge-grantees

Every time I think about the leadership in Cleveland I depress myself :(

^When it comes to the immigration issue Cleveland really does get it all wrong.  I'm shocked at how uninterested this dying city is at attracting immigrants.

It's the same reasoning East Cleveland council does not want to merge with Cleveland.