Cleveland Housing Network is the NEW Cleveland Works. With the same lofty piety about helping the poor, the same sanctimonious platitudes incorporated into their "plans", the same kind of white liberals (in this case Rob Curry and Kathy Urban Montebank) making six figure salaries at the top of the heap, poverty pimping the poor by scamming the taxpayers with a variety of "social Programs" for minorities to score tax dollar$$$: federal government grants, trolling for charitable handouts, LIHTC etc. and the same claims to "improve"... whatever the noble sounding cause of the day...employment, education,drug addiction, financial literacy, and in this case "affordable"housing. The same wild self-congratulatory applause from the usual suspects...local minions of the Democrat Party power structure and the media. And the exact same lack of accountability until one day just like with Cleveland Works, the bubble bursts and the very ugly rotting carcass underneath is exposed. Like the "affordable housing" at 13317 Horner Avenue that CHN is trying to unload. And let's be honest. Rob and Kathy don't have a clue where Horner Avenue even is! In the desolate Union Miles neighborhood, this "home" is all set for a lucky new owner! Cleveland Housing Network owns this house along with approximately 3200 others on the East Side of Cleveland. The only visible remnant of the extensive rehab done in June of 1997 (with your tax dollar$) on this now dangerously toxic slum with carcinogenic exposed asbestos siding, is one window staring bleakly from the second story onto the mountain of trash in the back yard. Why hasn't the Cleveland Department of Building and Housing cited this abomination? It's 4 Sale. Cleveland Housing Network is willing to sacrifice this gem for a mere $4,900. Well and also the lucky new owner has to take over the $8,000 loan from the city of Cleveland. And there are a few other conditions, minor things like MAINTAINING HOUSING CODE STANDARDS. Like the asbestos siding CHN has allowed to be exposed. No seriously, CHN insists on standards. From their recent 20 page brightly colored 2013-2015 "Strategic Plan". Goal 4: "CHN will be a fully engaged partner in comprehensive neighborhood transformation strategies." mmmmhmmm. So who exactly is in their target market for this "home" that in the 1988 transferred from one real person to another for $24,000. And now after 18 years of CHN "comprehensive neighborhood transformation strategies", and $40,000 in rehab costs paid for by the taxpayer THIS is what is left. I'm missing the part in their "2013-2015 Strategic Plan" that says it is A OK for CHN to get some poor gullible unsuspecting financially struggling African American Cleveland resident to pay THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for THIS? Even the squatting crackheads couldn't take it anymore and moved down the street. I have an idea! Let's make Rob and Kathy move in for a month and earn those bloated paychecks.
And now let's take a look at the home at 1088 E. 76th formerly owned by CHN, in the exciting totally new St. Clair Superior neighborhood. Unlike 13317 Horner, CHN basically gave this one away. After trying to evict the current "owner" . This house was "sold" by CHN on April 25, 2013 for $19,750. And really?? No legitimate financial institution is going to lend an UNemployed borrower with a recent eviction ANY money. So we the taxpayers through the largess of HUD just went ahead and gave her the house. In order for the property to transfer, the new "owner" received 2 "mortgages". One from CHN for $13,401.33 (!) and one from the city of Cleveland Department of Community Development for $8,000. ALL HUD (taxpayer) $$$ by the way. For a total of $21,401.33, $1651.33 MORE than the purchase price. Just like the good old B lenders that precipitated the housing crash, loaning a lil bit extra for....a new car, a cruise....whatever. BOTH "mortgage loans" are conditional on the property taxes being up to date. Since there are no repayment specifications with EITHER "mortgage", clearly the "lenders" are not expecting repayment. It's not their money so what do they care...it's OURS. But the property taxes...come on that's not a lot to ask is it? Apparently it is. The new "owner" hasn't paid a dime since she moved in. She currently owes $1358.81 in back taxes including a late penalty of $112.94 dating back to 2013 when she took "ownership". And there are no repercussions of course because per Goal 3 of the CHN "Plan": "new strategies will be in place to help families achieve financial stability and economic security" by just giving them houses and not making them pay property taxes.
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