During a Cleveland City Council meeting in March, LMM leadership introduced Ordinance No. 339, with the sponsorship of Councilwoman Stephanie Howse-Jones of Ward 7. This ordinance would allocate approximately $1 million in funding to LMM for printing 3D homes that could help ease the affordable housing crisis in Cleveland.
More than a third of renters in most Ohio cities are living in what the federal government deems to be unaffordable housing, according to census estimates. The highest share of renters spending more than a third of their income on monthly housing costs is in Highland Heights, where 89.9% of renters spend at least 35% …
Council rejected the initial 52-unit, four-story, $14.7 million plan for new housing in the Noble-Nela neighborhood of Cleveland Heights. “After the City Council turned it down, voted it down, we started with a blank sheet,” said Rev. Dr. Jimmy Hicks, Jr. of Start Right Community Development Corporation, a group that’s partnered with TWG out of …