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Council welcomes public comment before regular council meetings. Fill out the online form below for your chance to make a public comment at the next regular Monday Council meeting. Please read the revised rules and procedures.
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I work as a tenant-landlord mediation advocate for a local nonprofit. Over the past several months, we have seen a significant increase in the number of residents facing eviction. Rental assistance resources are dried up; the shelters are all full; landlords have a stranglehold on the housing court system; people have nobody to turn to for assistance. The landlord- and developer-driven housing agenda has left Clevelanders, literally, out in the cold. Rents go up while wages stay stagnant. Housing voucher programs are inadequate, and the process for obtaining Section 8 housing takes so long that many people are thrown onto the street before they even have a chance to find a home. We need more public programs. We need to stop the privatization of public social services. The City of Cleveland has a responsibility to each and every citizen to ensure their basic human needs are met and their human rights upheld. There is absolutely no excuse for people to be sleeping on the street. We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis in our city, and as winter approaches, the horror and suffering will only increase. The City of Cleveland must introduce emergency programs for housing every citizen and must stop landlords, many of whom do not even reside in this city, from evicting tenants. We need more public housing, and in the meantime, a moratorium on evictions is crucial. Thank you.
Adam Barrington
Please call for a ceasefire to prevent this horrifying death toll in escalating throughout the region.