With the help of the Operating Support Grant CNCURC (pronounced Sin-Kurk) has successfully performed top-quality rehabs of four homes, part of the Fergus Street Homeownership Project. The project promotes community that is involved and invested in the neighborhood through homeownership on and around Fergus Street, a formerly high crime area. View the amazing transformation of the building pictured to the right by moving your cursor over the thumbnail photos. Located across from a playground and at the intersection of Chase and Fergus, it is now three condos, with a handicapped-accessible unit on the first floor. Visit www.cncurc.org for sales information.

The home pictured to the left was also under rehab in 2010-2011. View photos of the entryway, amazing kitchen, lofted bedroom and modern design by local architect Bob Sala. In the before photos, Michael Berry, Project Manager, and Harry Blanton, Board President, show us the shotgun starter home, emptied of years of belongings and stripped for rehab. It’s located on Mad Anthony Street, just around the block from the condos.

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 and energy efficient. For more organizational history, and to see CNCURC's neighborhood involvement, go to www.cncurc.org.

The beautiful yellow house to the right is a handicap-accessible, Universal Design home rehabbed and sold in 2009 with the help of the Operating Support Grant. See the before and after in the first two photos. The rest of the photos are of the many homes CNCURC has constructed/rehabbed since 2007, 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.