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Helping Summit County’s 90,000 older adults stay safe in their homes

January 14th, 2021
Reporting, writing and photos by H.L. Comeriato Hilary Lewis could jump for joy. “It’s a huge, gigantic relief,” Lewis says, detailing the home repairs that Rebuilding Together has helped her complete ov... Read More...

Inside I Promise Village, the LeBron James program tackling student homelessness

December 10th, 2020
Reporting, writing and photos by Abbey Marshall LeBron James’ basketball career started in a place similar to this: huddled around a hoop on a tucked-away Akron street, with friends wiping their b... Read More...

City will accept bids for conservation in Merriman Valley after residents protest development

November 16th, 2020
Reporting, writing and photos by Abbey Marshall Tune into any Monday night City Council meeting and you’ll hear demands for conservation in the Merriman Valley in the public comment section. Spread open loc... Read More...

How a housing-first strategy could save domestic violence survivors during a pandemic

September 30th, 2020
By Conor Morris Things were finally looking up for Ohio resident Caroline earlier this year. After being forced to leave her home for a time because of domestic violence, she was in her own rental, raising ... Read More...

Home In Akron | This landlord wouldn’t make repairs. So his tenant convinced a judge that he shouldn’t collect rent.

February 10th, 2020
by Doug LivingstonAkron Beacon Journal Anthony Williams keeps a pile of pillows on his bed to block a drafty window. But that’s not why he sleeps on the living room couch. The basement wall below his bed... Read More...

Home in Akron | A crash course in squatters' rights

February 3rd, 2020
Killing time between the morning pick up and afternoon drop off Tuesday, Laura Speaks parked her school bus and hopped on Facebook. An advertisement flashed on her cell phone for a used side-by-side Kenmore... Read More...

This Is Akron: How to flip Akron’s distressed housing market

April 1st, 2019
by Doug LivingstonAkron Beacon Journal/Ohio.com She's staring down six expensive years in medical school and he's working part-time before graduating this summer with a degree in construction management fro... Read More...

This Is Akron: Housing is a hundred-year storm

April 1st, 2019
by Doug LivingstonAkron Beacon Journal/Ohio.com Now that 20 homes are gone, there's a clear view of Sandra Saulsberry's back porch from any of the public bus stops on Miller Avenue, which runs from Summit L... Read More...

‘A Road to Nowhere:’ How the Construction of the Innerbelt Displaced Thousands

November 29th, 2018
About 75 percent of the people displaced by the Innerbelt found themselves worse off than before or about the same, according to Akron’s current director of planning and urban development, Jason Segedy.

Akron is the most affordable city for millennials to become homeowners …so where are they?

December 11th, 2014
Did you see this from the Washington Post on Wednesday? Akron tops the list of cities where millennials can afford to buy a home. On one side of the infographic, you'll see it: The affordable places. Not man... Read More...

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