Eight new homes have gone up in Struthers, Ohio, the latest addition to a growing wave of construction from the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation. The organization says it has now built 49 new houses over the past two and a half years and expects to hit the 100th newly built house before long.
The Struthers unveiling was reported by WKBN.com, which covered the milestone as part of the nonprofit's broader building push. According to a separate WKBN report, YNDC has built new houses on every side of Youngstown over the past couple of years.
A Pipeline of New Construction Across the Region
YNDC Executive Director Ian Beniston said the organization expects it “won't be long” before it builds its 100th house, according to the WKBN report.
How the Homes Are Financed
Some of YNDC's houses have been funded with American Rescue Plan money from the city. The Struthers project follows an earlier YNDC build in the same city, according to a report on YNDC's own press coverage page, which notes the organization had already built another new home in Struthers before this latest round of eight.
YNDC's work has also drawn attention beyond print coverage. Executive Director Ian Beniston recently appeared on WFMJ's Morning Ready program to discuss the organization's recent accomplishments, according to YNDC's press materials.
Comparable Projects Show the Going Rate
Similar new-construction efforts elsewhere in Mahoning County offer a sense of what these homes tend to look like. In Youngstown, the Mahoning County Land Bank and YNDC unveiled three of six newly constructed homes on Mineral Springs Avenue, according to Mahoning Matters. Each of those 1,500-square-foot homes was listed at $180,000 and included three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, a detached two-car garage and a first-floor laundry room, per that report.
Those figures are specific to the Mineral Springs Avenue project rather than the Struthers homes unveiled this week. The evidence available does not give the exact address, sale prices, square footage or architectural details for the eight new Struthers houses, nor does it identify their buyers, builders or completion dates.
What is clear is the scale of YNDC's overall push: dozens of new houses built across Youngstown and Struthers. With the organization approaching its 100th newly built house, the Struthers project marks another step in an effort that has touched neighborhoods across the city.
