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Cleveland’s not breathing easy: New sensors to collect more data …
WEBSep 3, 2024 · Cleveland air quality has repeatedly failed to meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America ranks the city as the “#2 Asthma Capital” because of its air pollution and higher-than-average asthma rates and complications.. Monitoring air quality falls under the jurisdiction of the EPA and is an ongoing program that is conducted in ...
Cleveland renters with vouchers struggle to find housing
WEBSep 16, 2024 · Recent statistics bear out Lundgard’s claim. In these instances, 92% of renters who seek to use their vouchers are denied housing, according to a 2017 report from the Cleveland-based Fair Housing Center for Rights and Research. Housing rights activists and community groups in Cleveland are hoping …
The Believe Mortgage program is built to increase homeownership …
WEBSep 20, 2024 · In 2021, CHN Housing Capital, the lending arm of CHN Housing Partners, launched The Believe Mortgage program to help more people become homeowners in Northeast Ohio. The program is geared towards helping people get mortgages who otherwise might not be able to, and in addition to financing, offers down payment assistance, home repair grants and ...
Relief for Northeast Ohio sewer bills is here for renters, but will ...
WEBSep 19, 2024 · The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) announced these changes to its Sewer Affordability Program earlier this month. Up until this point, the discount program only provided the discount to low-income property owners, not renters with the bill in their own name. The same hasn’t …
Nonprofit groups are pushing for better green spaces this mayoral ...
WEBSep 24, 2024 · Five nonprofit groups whose work focuses on improving parks have formed the Cleveland Parks and Greenspace Coalition to push for equitable access to green space, transparency in how investments are made, and residents taking “ownership” over parks in the city. Cleveland has fallen behind its peer cities in providing equitable parks for all ...
Project White Butterfly reaches Cuyahoga residents with addiction ...
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Project White Butterfly (Monday-Friday 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.) at (216) 727-8725. Cuyahoga County’s 24-Hour Warm Line (440) 886-5950. SAMHSA’s Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: 988. To donate to Project White Butterfly see their website or mail checks made out to Project White Butterfly to 7452 Broadview Road #148, Parma, OH 44134.
Six months in, Shaker Square’s new owners make plan to ... - The …
WEBSep 24, 2024 · The new nonprofit owners of Shaker Square have completed a capital needs assessment of the property, and it calls for investing more than $7 million into the complex, which faced foreclosure last year. Cleveland Neighborhood Progress and Burten Bell Carr Inc. bought the property from The Coral Company in August for $11 million with help from ...
EDWINS goes nationwide in teaching prison inmates culinary
WEBSep 19, 2024 · Students who complete the video course obtain a culinary degree, and upon release are invited to enroll in the formal six-month training program at EDWINS. Graduates outside Cleveland can have travel expenses covered by the Cleveland Browns and free lodging at the EDWINS Second Chance Life Skills Center. “GTL was the enabler,” Chrostowski said.
Know Your Neighbors strives to bridge gap between CWRU, …
WEBSep 23, 2024 · From idea to action. This led Jones to start Know Your Neighbors, a student-led initiative at CWRU striving to build community between the campus and neighborhoods that directly surround it, which mainly include Glenville, Hough and parts of East Cleveland. Jones is also part of the Ohio Students Association (OSA), a group of college students ...