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Youngstown resident says county-funded home repairs were incomplete; staff to follow up
Summary
At a Mahoning County commissioners meeting, resident Floette Jordan described extensive problems with recent lead-hazard/healthy-homes work at her Youngstown house and county staff said they would investigate and follow up with the contractor and inspector.
Floette Jordan, a Youngstown resident, told Mahoning County commissioners she returned to her home on July 14 after roughly a month in a hotel and found work paid for under a county home-repair program to be “shoddy and incomplete.”
Jordan said the exterior looked good but the interior showed “shoddy painting, plastering,” a bent deep‑freezer lid and a cracked toilet seat. “When I received the call that I could return to my home on July 14, almost a month later, I was excited, y’all. When I pulled up in front of my home and saw how good it looked on the outside, I was really excited,” she said. After going inside, she said, “Imagine my letdown…to see such shoddy and incomplete work in every area.”
The complaint was raised during the meeting’s public comments. County staff and commissioners discussed next steps: a county inspector visited Jordan’s home and took photos, and…
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