November 28, 2010
A Cleveland Charity’s Fighting Spirit Helps Stem a Tide of Foreclosures
Photographs by Talking Eyes Media/Civic Ventures
“It’s unfortunate to say, but we’re doing better now because of others’ misery,” says Inez Killingsworth, who founded a grass-roots group that aids troubled homeowners.
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Photographs by Talking Eyes Media/Civic Ventures
“It’s unfortunate to say, but we’re doing better now because of others’ misery,” says Inez Killingsworth, who founded a grass-roots group that aids troubled homeowners.
Cleveland
Mount Pleasant hasn’t lived up to its name in decades. The once-vibrant neighborhood of hulking wood-frame homes in this city’s southeastern corner has long been ravaged by blight, drugs, and joblessness.
But it’s been hit especially hard in just the past few years by crime and by foreclosures. About 15,000 people a year have left the Cleveland metropolitan area in the past decade—a rate of abandonment that nationally ranks second only to parts of post-Katrina
