At our meeting on November 17, HHNA discussed gardens, the Earth Fair to be held in April, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP). Mike Badik of the City of Toledo presented information about NSP, including four properties on streets across from Highland Park that are in the process of being purchased. NSP has not yet rehabbed any homes in our area, even though it is one of the designated "tipping point" neighborhoods. Throughout the city some 85 properties are under consideration for purchase and rehab, a portion of which are in the HHNA area. The NSP is a complex public-private partnership for helping stabilize neighborhoods seen as on the edge of "tipping" into deterioration. For more information about purchasing a rehabbed home (at 20% off the purchase price), see the city website: http://toledo.oh.gov/Portals/0/DREAM2OWNFLYER2REVFINALpdf.pdf To read about the overall NSP program, see http://toledo.oh.gov/ and scroll down the home page to the section on NSP.
Pictured above are neighborhood residents discussing neighborhood issues with Councilman Mike Craig and Mike Badik.
--Carol Scheiber, Member, HHNA
