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Akron’s arts and culture newspaper The Devil Strip has laid off its staff, citing insufficient funds; Christian Aid Ministries isn’t saying much about the 17 members who were abducted over the weekend in Haiti; Foxconn, which is purchasing the Lordstown Motors factory, has announced its new line of electric vehicles; and more stories.
Akron's community-owned magazine The Devil Strip ended its operations as of Monday, citing lack of funding as the reason.
Tenants were evicted even when landlords didn’t follow the publicly stated rules.
The Devil Strip This home on McGowan Street, built in 1916, is in need of repairs after suffering damage from a fire. In 2016, the Eviction Lab at Princeton found that among large cities, Akron has the highest eviction rate of any city in the state. And in January and February of last year, there were more evictions in those two months than in the previous three years. The media partnership, Home in Akron, which includes WKSU, is taking an in-depth look at the city’s rental market and the housing challenges that continue through the pandemic. We spoke with Rosalie Murphy, editor of The D...
Renting cheap housing in Akron is not cheap. The city has a disproportionate share of homes built around World War I and World War II. And they’re concentrated in neighborhoods with extreme “rent burdens” — census tracts where rent consumes 35% or more of a tenant’s income. These older homes are more costly per unit to repair, upgrade or maintain than larger apartment complexes. City administrators suspect the units eat into landlords' profit margins, discourage investment or force renters to make difficult budgetary decisions. According to a Beacon Journal analysis of tract-level ...