2006 MetLife Awards: Fergus Street Home Ownership Project
Date Published: 12/06/2006
Author: LISC
CASE STUDY
Cincinnati Northside Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation and the Cincinnati Police Department
2006 MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Neighborhood Revitalization Award
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The Fergus Street Homeownership Project (“the Project”) was developed in Cincinnati in a neighborhood struggling with drug sales and other crime, low homeownership rates and a shrinking population. The Project was formed by the Cincinnati Northside Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation (CNCURC), the Cincinnati Police Department, and other City agencies and community organizations. While CNCURC is a relatively new organization, its staff members have applied their years of experience in housing and community development to integrate public safety partnerships into all of the organization’s activities from day one. With coordination by CNURC, the Police Department used problem-oriented and community-oriented policing styles to stabilize the neighborhood and pave the way for CNCURC to redevelop properties and create long-term community assets. The results of their work include the redevelopment of a particularly problematic corner, known for its open-air drug market, into single-family housing.
Topic: --Community Safety
Type: Case study / model practice