A motion to explore an incentive program to convert multi-family properties to single-family homes has been adopted by Cincinnati City Council.
The proposal, which was offered earlier this month by Councilmember Laketa Cole, will now be studied by the City Manager's office.
Cole hopes that the program will help restore communities by replacing blighted, neglected rental units with homeownership - leading to reinvestment and an increased tax base.
Many of Cincinnati's large turn-of-the-century homes have been carved up into multiple apartments, which are often a substandard last option for their tenants.
Previous reading on BC:
Cole: Incentivize conversion of multi-families (3/18/08)
Friday, March 28, 2008
Cincinnati motion on multi-families adopted
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This would be step in the right direction. The trend among condo developers to make 3-5 units out of single family homes needs to stop. These large brownstones could be the Million Dollar mansions of OTR.I belive the area can support more restoration efforts. Also larger single family homes will encourage families to move downtown, a key component in neighborhood turnaround. Also single family homes typically have less cars and future congestion will be lessened.
^ Condo development doesn't bother me as much as when one of these grand old houses is gutted and chopped up into 4 - 6 crappy apartments. In either case, this is definitely a step in the right direction.
It should be clear to anybody aquainted with the record foreclosure statistics of late, that home ownership is not a reasonable goal for many citizens. Mr. Bush's "Ownership Society" is currently nowhere to be found.
Housing for single people, for individuals, is sorely needed in Cincinnati. Decades of housing polcies hostile to SRO's have reduced almost to zero the ability of many working class single people to live alone.
While encouraging families to move downtown, we should also provide ways to move people off the street, out of shelters, and into affordable housing. Housing does not always mean "house."
Yeah, we're definitely not talking condos here. We're talking about shoddy rental units being created out of the large houses of Avondale, Walnut Hills, Price Hill, etc.
djc...I left you a comment on Urban Cincy.
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