Housing Supports: Cuyahoga County Department Of Unintended Results

Oops! Some of the best intentions don’t pan out quite the expected way.

Some twenty plus Cuyahoga County, Ohio communities have instituted what, on the surface, seemed to be a perfectly reasonable nuisance policy for the use of 911 calling, targeting high crime neighbourhoods. A  ‘three strikes and you’re out’ kind of program, those who make too many calls to 911 face fines, even eviction from public housing.

However, a recent study by Cleveland State University students has uncovered some disturbing consequences of the program, including the repression of calls to report domestic violence.

Read more in at cleveland.com: Nuisance laws penalize residents for 911 calls

 

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