Hey all,

 

On October 17th, ESOP teamed up with Cleveland Councilman Ken Johnson for a clean up of Mt. Auburn in the Buckeye neighborhood.  Unfortunately, these pictures could be representative of the destruction caused by the foreclosure crisis affecting the whole city, but primarily the inner east-side neighborhoods.  This is reality for many residents in the city. 

 

 

 

 

Wow- sad, but interest stuff.  Good work by ESOP and the councilman's team there.  Thanks for posting those.

That's difficult to sift through those pictures. But also hopeful that enough people still care about the neighborhood to get out there and help clean it up.

It looks a lot like some parts of our east side (on the outside at least). As long as I can get up early enough tomorrow and it's not pouring, I'm going to be heading out west to the Hilltop for a cleanup on W. Broad, so it'll be a business district rather than residential. It's good to see that some people care about our not-as-well-off neighborhoods.

When there is little to nothing left... there is one thing that is free.. PRIDE!

 

 

Good job getting it going to help make a different reality for residents.

I'll be taking more soon.  Fairfax, for example, has two completely different sides to it.  There's Euclid Ave., then there's the rest of Fairfax, which has been all but destroyed by the foreclosure crisis.  It's the actual residents of the neighborhoods who suffer the most.

^ I know...its shameful. When one goes through Fairfax...along Euclid, it is a far cry from so much of the actual residential segment. In other words, far more to the place than the clinic campus. Those homes have solid structure though...and can stand the test of time to be renovated. Can you imagine how cheaply housing is built now lasting this long if it fell into trouble! The right thing to do would have been to give the homes back to the people..let them keep them, instead of bailing out who caused the problem by setting up so many people to fail, or in such a way that this would likely be the result---for the sake of making a nice fat commission.

I never understood how forclosing on a home that the lender could never sell before it became worthless made any sense.  No one has been able to explain it to me.  Wouldn't it have made more sense to let the debtor stay on as a tenant?

Volunteers like these will play a big part in bringing some of our blighted neighborhoods back.  They get much-needed work accomplished, they show pride in their cities, and they make a personal connection to places they might never have otherwise.