In early April, a group of five local organizations and the City of Cleveland came together with Detroit-based Rocket Community Fund to announce a new program to help improve housing and stabilization in Cleveland’s east side neighborhoods, preventing the displacement of renters, and creating homeownership opportunities for residents in neighborhoods with the highest number of the tax delinquent properties and where Black homeownership rates are disproportionately low.

Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise), the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga Land Bank, CHN Housing Partners, Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, and the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) are working together with Rocket Community Fund to use $1.5 million in ARPA money to launch the Make It Home Cleveland program—a program first started in 2017 in Detroit by Rocket Community Fund.

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