Schools are among the first places to feel the fallout
NPR’s Marketplace did a report last night on how the foreclosure crisis is impacting the schools in Cleveland, OH. Mhari Saito from WCPN in Cleveland reports on how those districts, and their students, are coping.
Brian Davis, who heads the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, summed up the situation: It’s usually somebody who is living in a duplex or multifamily apartment building that’s been foreclosed on. And usually the tenant is the last to know in the whole process. They have usually a short period of time to relocate and have then trouble finding a place to live.
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Richard W. Brown, has almost forty years experience in both housing development and community organizing. Since 1991 Mr. Brown has been the Chief Executive Officer of Monarch Housing Associates, the 1995 Governor’s Excellence in Housing Award winner in the organization category. He has been happily married to Jan, the woman he loves since 1975, and has two grown children - Jon and Mike - and a dog - Oscar. On July 19, 2010, he became the proud grandfather of a his first granddaughter - Lilah-Rae.Click here to send Mr. Brown an email.
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