Neighborhood Stabilization Program

A great menu doesn’t mean the food will taste good: City of Dayton goes to Denver for an expensive website

When I first came to Dayton there were a lot more people living in the city. Downtown didn’t have two new class A skyscrapers, a new performing arts center, Riverscape, but it still had people working there. The Arcade was open and we didn’t have the Downtown Dayton Partnership or the Dayton Development Coalition or Read More

Are the empty homes the real problem?

A big benefit to not being part of a political machine with a staff doing it for you is walking door-to-door to collect signatures.  While doing so recently, it became quickly and painfully obvious how many homes in Dayton are now missing taxpayers. Neighborhoods that were once “solid” now are starting to erode, with empty Read More