On Thursday, April 30th, YNDC Executive Director Ian Beniston spoke at the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) Starting at Home conference on the Collaboration and Policy Development Panel on Local Government and Housing.
On Thursday, April 23th and Friday, April 24th, the Mahoning Valley Food Coalition hosted a two day local food planning workshop with the support of the federal Local Food Local Places initiative.
On Saturday, April 25th, neighborhood residents, volunteers, and YNDC came together to clean up and secure 19 vacant homes on the city's east side around Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School.