This is 鈥淓viction Prevention Week鈥� in Akron. One advocacy group brought together experts Thursday to come up with solutions to the city鈥檚 housing crisis.
Community Legal Aid and hosted a day-long summit on topics such as the intersection between health and housing, and how eviction court works. One of the moderators was community organizer Ray Greene. He鈥檚 put together tenant鈥檚 unions in ten buildings in Akron. And he says the city should do something about landlords who live out-of-town 鈥� or who aren鈥檛 even people.
鈥淚f not get rid of LLCs altogether, at least put a five-year cap [so] the property must be abandoned or unlived-in 鈥� to give the community five years to figure out if they want to buy it 鈥� before they give it to LLCs.鈥�
Akron Artist/Poet Exposure on her thoughts about the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority
— Kabir Bhatia (@KabirBhatiaTime)
Within the next month, Community Legal Aid plans to compile ideas from the summit and release a report with long- and short-term ways to prevent evictions in Akron.
