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For the low, low price of $2 billion Cleveland can emerge from the decaying rust-belt and into a greener, more beautiful era.
Cleveland is littered abandoned and decrepit plots of land littered through the city. What to do with them? Well, there’s plenty, and a lot of it free — sleeping quarters for the homeless and private rooms for heroin users, But the good stuff, that takes money — to tear down buildings, rehab the land, and clean up whatever environmental mess lays beneath. One group of eco-lovers has an idea, and it can be ours for 1,000,000 easy installments of $2,000, or something like that.
This article appears in Feb 16-22, 2011.
I have a better idea. When a home is torn down between two houses sell the vacant lot for $1 to the owners of the homes next to the lot. Oh yeah we used to do that before we tried sqeezing now vacant NEW homes on those lots in an effort to get tax payers to move in. Like everything Cleveland, try and squeeze more money and get less, so squeeze harder.
Cleveland and it’s leadership need to stop thinkking about how to give EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING to the poor and start making the city a better place to live so that hardworking middle class families move into the city. Large urban lots, visible police,vibrant downtown businesses and urban events like the party in the park and riverfest are what makes a city great. Giving jobs and making room on the euclid corridor for the homeless is just a waste of time and money. YOU want Cleveland to grow? to succeed? Make it a great place to live. You know what will happen? people will move here and you will have money for homeless shelters and jobs for the…los….less advantaged.