Housing, Part 2: New Housing in Cleveland

Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Download  RSS  Short URL  Share

Social scientists have warned that core cities can act like black holes. If too much of the population spreads out to the suburbs, the city collapses and sucks down everything around it - including the suburbs. Cleveland seemed to be in that danger in the 1990s. But Mayor Mike White's administration began offering tax abatements to attract homeowners back to the city. Now developers are trying what was recently considered impossible: building new, profitable housing developments in the city. ideastream's Mark Urycki reports.