With the help of the 2009 Operating Support Grant CNCURC (pronounced Sin-Kurk) successfully rehabbed and sold 5 homes to low-income homeowners as part of the Fergus Street Homeownership Project. The Fergus St. Homeownership Project promotes community that is involved and invested in the neighborhood through homownership on and around Fergus Street, a formerly high crime area. The beautiful yellow house to the right is a handicap-accessible, Universal Design home.  See the before and after in the first two photos. The third and forth photos are of a rehabbed home also on Chase Street.  Slated for completion in 2010: several more rehabs around Fergus St., and four units of rehab and two new construction across the street from the Chase and Fergus St. park. 

Appropriately named the Parkside Project, the building to the left will house condos.  The Parkside Project is an offshoot of the Homeownership Project. The top row of photos to the left is the building CNCURC will rehab (inside photos included) and the empty lots that will be used for new construction and parking.   

The first building pictured in the second row is a rehab in progress on Mad Anthony Street.  Inside, Michael Berry, Project Manager, and Harry Blanton, Board President, show us the shotgun starter home, emptied of years of belongings and stripped for rehab.

Other photos included are outsides of buildings adjacent or close to each other, in an area Northside activits begun revitalizing years ago through the start of a community garden.  The siding hides and has protected the beautiful brick of these true masonry buildings since the 50's.

CNCURC was founded in 2005, to address crime through redevelopment and promotion of homeownership. Always strongly focused on environmental sustainability, they strive to make their housing LEED certified or energy efficient.  For more organizational history, and to see CNCURC's neighborhood involvement, go to www.cncurc.org. To the right many beutiful homes CNCURC has constructed/rehabbed in the past, including the first Gold LEED certified homes in Cincinnati, built in 2007. All around CNCURC's buildings, neighbors are jumping in to revitalize their own homes, with fresh paint, neat yards, and repairs.