Nick Guinta is a Northeast Ohio urban blight photographer who is concerned about a growing number of unsecured, wide-open, vacant structures presenting a safety hazard in the City of Cleveland
Guinta showed News 5 pictures and video of an unsecured church on Cleveland's East Side which contained a dangerous collapsing roof, ceiling and walls. Guinta reported homeless people have been living inside, and he believes the vacant church needs to be boarded up by the city before someone is seriously hurt or killed.
"To allow buildings like this to just sit here and rot in our city is absolutely ridiculous," McDonald said. “As fast as I can get on these properties and report them and get them into the system, it seems like they’re being allowed to sit and just stay there." Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Michael Polensek confirmed the growing issue of unsecured structures. The City of Cleveland told News 5 it does nearly 5,000 board-up jobs at a cost of nearly $5 million in taxpayer dollars every year. Still, Polensek said, the growing issues with unsecured homes continue.
Polensek said the Cuyahoga Landbank met with city and county leaders during a May 3 meeting to discuss the neighborhood safety issue that's hitting taxpayers in the pocketbook. Vanover admitted keeping up with securing vacant homes is difficult, but he urged residents to report the potentially hazardous homes by using the city's improved 3-1-1 call system.
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