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Resident raises contractor-hiring concerns for house-raising; commissioners point to HRC participation goals and demolition plan
Summary
A resident asked why a contractor commonly used for raising blighted houses has not hired local Black workers; commissioners said Human Relations Council (HRC) participation goals apply to demolition projects and asked for a demolition-program update, including whether Ferguson Avenue homes are on the list to be removed.
A Dayton resident raised concerns at the Aug. 14 commission meeting about blighted houses on Ferguson Avenue and whether the contractor often seen raising homes in the neighborhood had recruited and hired local Black workers.
“I see Bladecutters all the time. They are lily white as far as those people in still positions, and that does not seem to be right,” resident Kimaru Attenza said at the podium, asking the commission to require local hiring as part of contracts to raise houses.
Attenza said two families moved into one rehabilitated house and were later displaced by city code enforcement because the house…
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