Cincinnati Launches Latest Neighborhood Enhancement Program in Camp Washington & South Cumminsville
[From WVXU.org]
(March 1, 2019) Cincinnati officials on Friday launched its annual Neighborhood Enhancement Program (NEP), and this year it will focus on Camp Washington and South Cumminsville.
The city brings many services to the communities for a period of 90 days with a focus on code enforcement, blight removal and cooling crime hotspots.
Joe Gorman is the executive director of the Camp Washington Community Board. He says the NEP program is a good public/private partnership.
“The residents and business people in Camp Washington have built the civic infrastructure needed for the city to come in with their powerful resources and do some very good things in the neighborhood,” Gorman said.
Marilyn Evans is the president of the South Cumminsville Community Council. She thanked city officials for selecting the neighborhood for the program.
“We want to beautify our community,” Evans said. “There’s no sense of putting new houses in and rehabbing if the rest of us don’t join in and clean up our community.”
Also on Friday, Working in Neighborhoods – with the help of several local banks – broke ground for the Net Zero Urban Village. It will be a high-efficiency affordable housing development in South Cumminsville.
Board Completes 52nd House Renovation and Sale
Joseph T. Gorman • Community Organizer
CWCB has finished its 52nd single-family home renovation and sale. Very exciting project, as we saved a building that was in horrible condition.
Demolition of 1222-24 Bates
Due to several administrative snafus with the City, the vacant eyesore nestled among the twelves houses the Board has renovated on Bates has finally been demolished. As do many of the houses on the north side of Bastes, 1222 Bates sits in front of the former Cincinnati Workhouse wall. One of our ongoing issues is to keep Bates Alley cleaned of debris, overgrown weeds, and litter. Notice the big trees in the backyard!
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