Youngstown housing authority plans suburban project for seniors

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority’s newly adopted five-year plan calls for building a new senior-housing development somewhere in Mahoning County outside of Youngstown.

The authority already has three senior-housing complexes in Youngstown and one each in Campbell and Struthers, observed Carmelita Douglas, authority executive director.

“We’ve been approached by people from the remaining suburbs, who have a real need, because they are getting an aging population, and they need somewhere for them to go that would keep them close to their relatives,” Douglas said.

Possible funding sources for such a development, whose height wouldn’t exceed four floors, would be tax credits for investors or money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Douglas said.

“Generally, that would probably fit in with the characteristics of the other buildings in the suburbs,” Danielle Mulligan, the authority’s director of planning and development, said of the proposed building’s limited height.

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