Quick Update: Cleveland-Holloway land vote tonight at City Council
A quick reminder that the City Council agenda item #25 tonight is the vote to rescind the transfer of city-owned land in the CH neighborhood to two non-profits. The neighborhood is asking that these properties follow the normal surplus property procedure - be made available to any member of the public to bid (including but not limited to the non-profits.) Failing any bid, the properties can be available exclusively to the non-profits. These properties were never offered to the public despite lists of people interested in the property (at least 20 for each.) Instead, because some non-profits had expressed interest in the land, these parcels were withheld from a public bid process, and neighborhood requests to be notified of any changes or disposition of the land were ignored.
The neighborhood has expressed to me that they would like at least 90 days before the properties are put out to bid, to allow time for the neighborhood to gather and formulate their own vision for the properties, and that they would like to see an upset bid process, to maximize transparency in what has been, to this point, a process lacking in direct and open communication.
The City Council Meeeting is tonight, at 7p.
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The focus of this conversation should be on the concentration of subsidized housing. I don't think anybody in Cleveland-Holloway is against subsidized housing but they are saying "Okay...we have been inundated with enough subsidized housing and services."
People are always talking about the shortage of affordable housing. If that was the case, we wouldn't have vacant properties (some in good condition) throughout our inner city neighborhoods.
These same houses and apartment buildings are prime candidates for non-profits to rehab with subsidies. There is one particular apartment building on Angier Avenue near Hoover Rd. that has been abandoned for years. Why not consider reuse of existing structures while not concentrating the subsidized housing in a particular area?
The Rescue Mission was able to rehab a motel in the Duke Park neighborhood near I-85 is a good model.
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