Target Revitalization Neighborhoods
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Category: Middletown City Government
Forum Name: Community Revitalization
Forum Description: Middletown Community Revitalization News
URL: http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3223
Printed Date: Nov 22 2024 at 4:22am
Topic: Target Revitalization Neighborhoods
Posted By: Vivian Moon
Subject: Target Revitalization Neighborhoods
Date Posted: Aug 19 2010 at 7:50am
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I’m having a real problem with the chart below. Why aren’t Weren’t they listed as high poverty & crime area during the bus tour of Middletown? It seems to me that CDBG and NSP funds are not being used in the Section 8 and high poverty areas? Utilizing the neighborhood indicators above, we classified neighborhoods overall as stable, at-risk, or deteriorated. The at-risk neighborhoods had an “above average” overall risk score. The overall rank identifies the priority and order the City will revitalize each area. Target Revitalization Neighborhoods with Above Average Overall Stress 5 Neighborhood Total Housing
SFl 5 2010-2014 HUD Consolidated Plan, Table 23. 
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Posted By: Nelson Self
Date Posted: Aug 19 2010 at 9:12am
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Miss Vivian -
Thanks again for your vigilance in obtaining/seeking to obtain HUD financial plus programmatic information from City staff. MiddletownUSA participants are enlightened because of your efforts.
 Your post raises a number of perplexing questions as to where City staff is supposedly spending our hard-earned Federal tax dollars (HUD funds).
 If our City staff ceases spending up to $230,000 on NSP-1 funded home acquisitions/rehabilitation, maybe it will then be possible to make a real impact on our most vulnerable neighborhoods.
 We are growing tired of one City staff member's headline-grabbing statements that have little to nothing to do with what's actually being accomplished.
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Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Aug 19 2010 at 9:33am
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Nelson
The above information was included in the City Council workbook of last Tuesday night however it did not include the map.
Remember last year when Mr. Adkins went before City Council and requested that the City become "Slumville USA" using the 54% rule so CDBG funds could be used in all areas of Middletown. It seems that he is using the same rule for NSP-1 funds. Hmmm...In his 96 page reoport to HUD wasn't all the Section 8, poverty and high crime located in Wards 1 & 2. |
Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Aug 19 2010 at 10:10am
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Well it seems my three little grey cells aren’t working very well this morning because I have more questions concerning this chart. Overall rank does not seem to fit with what is known. Flood plain is interesting in that half of Overall crime is another area you would expect at least one to be in a "high or severe" crime area to warrant inclusion such as Avalon or
This Chart does not appear accurate. 1. When, where, how and by whom was this data collected? 2. Why doesn’t it list ALL neighborhoods in 3. We have no neighborhoods with a high or severe crime rate? |
Posted By: viper771
Date Posted: Aug 19 2010 at 11:48am
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I don't think Middletown has a high or severe crime area compared to the areas I lived in Southern California.
I am pretty sure Wards 1 and 2 have been in the flood zone since the flood of 1913...I think that was the whole point of the Miami Conservancy wasn't it?? Thanks for the info by the way too! :)
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: Aug 19 2010 at 12:49pm
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Viper: Not true about the flood zones. Butler county was re-evaluated 1-2 years ago. Dont recall any flood zones in alot of that area. |
Posted By: viper771
Date Posted: Aug 19 2010 at 8:19pm
| Ah I didn't know that. Where are the flood zones exactly? I am still a newbie to Middletown :) |
Posted By: Nelson Self
Date Posted: Aug 20 2010 at 3:04am
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Spider John, Randy & Miss Vivian -
Sad to say, over the next five years the Neighborhood Revitalization Department WILL NOT focus on the severely impacted Sherman area.
 Wasn't it only late last year that Crawford Street and vicinity made front page news as a KEY AREA afflicted by crime, abandoned residential properties, etc.? Now, Miss Vivian has discovered that the Neighborhood Revitalization Department hired yet another consultant to prepare a "Middletown Neighborhood Study" earlier this year!
 Does anyone know how much HUD money has been spent on expensive consultants by these 4th floor occupants of One Donham Plaza since they showed up on the scene 1.5 years ago?  As Viet Vet would say, "What a City!" And, as I'd say, "The all-knowing City bureaucrats sure love to spend HUD bucks as if they're playing the board game MONOPOLY."
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Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Aug 20 2010 at 4:05pm
Middletown Journal -  The map above clearly shows that the greatest number of Section 8 housing are located in Avalon, Douglass, If these are the highest crime and Section 8 areas then why isn’t the City using HUD funds to help these neighborhoods for the next 5 years? After all it was the City that increased the Section 8 rentals in these heighborhoods. Hmmm...it seems that these neighborhoods are really useful for bus tours and your 96 page HUD Section 8 report but not for the HUD money to help solve the problems that you say are caused by Section 8. |
Posted By: spiderjohn
Date Posted: Aug 20 2010 at 6:42pm
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beautiful logic Ms.Moon
Definitely ?s that need to be answered by Mr.Adkins.
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Posted By: Nelson Self
Date Posted: Aug 20 2010 at 7:11pm
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Miss Vivian & Spider John -
Given the performance of the past 18 months, how many projects will be completed by Neighborhood Revitalization Department staff in their so-called Target Areas over the next five years?? The true test is a) how many owner-occupied homes undergo moderate to major rehabilitation, b) how many first-time buyers are assisted via down payment/closing cost assistance, c) how many vacant and foreclosed homes will be demolished, d) how many elderly and permanently disabled home owners will receive emergency home repairs, e) how much more HUD funding will be siphoned off for former downtown projects, etc.??
How much more money will the Cityy spend on a) Program Administration, b) Program Delivery (another type of HUD allowed Program Administration), c) paid Consultants, etc.?? Will there be more $230,000+ purchase, rehab and resale NSP-1 extravaganzas??
The bottom line isn't the Headline Grabbing Rhetoric of Neighborhood Revitalization Department staff that we periodically read in the MJ or hear at City Council meetings. The true test is how effectively and efficiently that the Neighborhood Revitalization Department spends our HUD tax dollars!
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Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Aug 21 2010 at 1:17am
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Here is the link to all the Neighborhood Profiles
http://www.cityofmiddletown.org/docs/commsvc/nprofiles.pdf - http://www.cityofmiddletown.org/docs/commsvc/nprofiles.pdf |
Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Aug 21 2010 at 3:07am
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Here is the link on this blog where Mr Adkins forever changed the use of CDBG Funds.
I thought this was JUST for 2009 Topic: CITY TO DECLARE |
Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Aug 21 2010 at 3:22am
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I thought this was JUST for 2009
When did City Council approve this plan for 2010 - 2014? Ordinance No O2009-79, an ordinance authorizing a substantial amendment to the 2009 CDBG Annual Action Plan (1st ORDINANCE NO. O2009-79 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT TO THE 2009 CDBG ANNUAL ACTION PLAN. WHEREAS, the City of WHEREAS, the City is proposing changes to enhance the use of CDBG funds in the City, including a) expanding the area eligible for CDBG projects to include the entire City; b) changing the name of the Community Housing Improvements Program to Volunteer Improvements Program; c) increasing the budget for code enforcement; d) exchanging some activities to different program accounts; e) recovering costs related to property disposition; f) cancelling some 2008 activities; and g) moving funds from demolition to code enforcement; and WHEREAS, this Substantial Amendment has been available for public comment in accordance with HUD requirements; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the City Council of the City of Section 1 City Council hereby authorizes the CDBG Substantial Amendment to the 2009 Annual Action Plan and further authorizes the City Manager to execute all necessary documents including applications, certifications, and agreements, to accept and receive the funds under this program. Section 2 This ordinance shall take effect and be in force on and after the earliest period ______________________________ 1st 2nd Adopted:_____________________________ Effective:_____________________________ Attest: _______________________________ Clerk of City Council |
Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Aug 22 2010 at 9:39am
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HUD Response Letter to the City of |
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Date Posted: Oct 20 2010 at 2:26am
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