Cleveland and East Cleveland Consider Merging

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Cleveland and East Cleveland consider merging together

Two of the country's poorest cities are talking about a merger they say could help both.

But Cleveland could need a sizeable boost in taxpayer dollars to absorb East Cleveland, a place so impoverished that some residents fill their own potholes.

Cleveland officials are looking at development possibilities that exist in its struggling neighbor East Cleveland. But Cleveland has its own problems.

The warm glow of positive publicity after its successful turn hosting the Republican National Convention cannot gloss over its big-city ills — a shrinking population, entrenched poverty and neighborhoods beset with decay and violent crime.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

*cue the Cleveland tourism video

 

[Yapdatfool]

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

East cleaveland isnt part of cleaveland

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[ⒶⓁⒾⒶⓈ]

Did you see the second one


"At least were not detroit"

 

[Yapdatfool]

Did you see the second one


"At least were not detroit"

Yep

He goes in on cats too

 

[EndDomination]

East cleaveland isnt part of cleaveland

Nah. Cleveland has an East Side, but East Cleveland is a separate city, sitting on the outskirts of the East Side of Cleveland and a number of wealthy subrubs (ironically enough) like University Heights, Cleveland Heights, Warrensville Heights and Highland Heights/Beachwood.
Its actually a little insane, there are streets that are partially in East Cleveland, partially in Cleveland Heights, same sized homes, and there will be a 150k difference between the two.

 

[EndDomination]

Cleveland and East Cleveland consider merging together

Two of the country's poorest cities are talking about a merger they say could help both.

But Cleveland could need a sizeable boost in taxpayer dollars to absorb East Cleveland, a place so impoverished that some residents fill their own potholes.

Cleveland officials are looking at development possibilities that exist in its struggling neighbor East Cleveland. But Cleveland has its own problems.

The warm glow of positive publicity after its successful turn hosting the Republican National Convention cannot gloss over its big-city ills — a shrinking population, entrenched poverty and neighborhoods beset with decay and violent crime.

The thing about East Cleveland is that its poverty is due to both mismanagement, White flight followed by massive middle-class flight, its proximity to Downtown (it isn't close), and the design of the city (its incredibly residential, huge homes and narrow streets all having fallen into disarray). Unless there is a migration of people coming to the city, it will continue to fall apart.
Something like 75% of the properties and businesses in the city are Black-owned, so there is a little bit of hope.
But its poor, dangerous, like 90% Black, and has a poor education system even though it is within 10 minutes of 5 colleges (Case Western Reserve, John Carroll University, Ursuline College, Cuyahoga Community College, and Notre Dame) and within 35 minutes of 3 more colleges (Baldwin Wallace, University of Akron, and Cleveland State University).
Its a mess, though I do plan on buying property there.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

The Midwest is incredibly depressing

 

[Jimi Swagger]

Did you see the second one


"At least were not detroit"

Yooo my stomach hurts...the river so polluted that even the fish has AIDs. Is Cleveland really a shythole?

 

[TTT]

The thing about East Cleveland is that its poverty is due to both mismanagement, White flight followed by massive middle-class flight, its proximity to Downtown (it isn't close), and the design of the city (its incredibly residential, huge homes and narrow streets all having fallen into disarray). Unless there is a migration of people coming to the city, it will continue to fall apart.
Something like 75% of the properties and businesses in the city are Black-owned, so there is a little bit of hope.
But its poor, dangerous, like 90% Black, and has a poor education system even though it is within 10 minutes of 5 colleges (Case Western Reserve, John Carroll University, Ursuline College, Cuyahoga Community College, and Notre Dame) and within 35 minutes of 3 more colleges (Baldwin Wallace, University of Akron, and Cleveland State University).
Its a mess, though I do plan on buying property there.

The area around Case is getting a lot of development, I would not be surprised to see it increasingly gentrified in the next 5 years. I think East Cleveland also included a list of demands that Cleveland would never agree to because they want to keep revenues for themselves like red light cameras etc. I read that a merger would allow Cleveland to apply for Federal grants and money.

 

[hashmander]

i wish i had a little bit more money so i could invest in these industrial cities that i have no familiarity with, but as it stands now i have to keep my money near me in places where i know the terrain.

 

[EndDomination]

The area around Case is getting a lot of development, I would not be surprised to see it increasingly gentrified in the next 5 years. I think East Cleveland also included a list of demands that Cleveland would never agree to because they want to keep revenues for themselves like red light cameras etc. I read that a merger would allow Cleveland to apply for Federal grants and money.

Some parts of it, for sure, though there is a significant portion of Little Italians who would probably start a war if they felt they were being encroached on.