Forgotten Triangle

Forgotten Triangle forgotten no more

By Ken Prendergast / May 26, 2021 November 20, 2021

Cleveland received the best news possible today for the redevelopment of one of the city’s oldest public housing sites. The Woodhill Homes redevelopment won the largest possible federal grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Last year the project was a finalist for HUD’s $35 million Choice Neighborhoods grant but came up just short.

Cleveland remembers, jump-starts the Forgotten Triangle

By Ken Prendergast / November 15, 2019 January 3, 2022

The 1970s weren’t kind to America’s older cities. The white middle class fled from them, taking their homes and jobs to the suburbs. Left behind were low-income minorities, shuttered factories and stores, hopelessness, drugs and crime.

Cleveland suffered greatly, losing more residents in the 1970s than any other decade. But Cleveland was far from alone.