The city of Jeannette's fire chief plans to use funds from Biden's rescue plan to demolish 250 vacant homes deteriorating from squatter activity. Jeannette, Pennsylvania authorities are working to mitigate a homelessness and squatting problem that has been getting worse since 1979.
Jeannette, Pennsylvania Fire Department Chief Bill Frye on the growing problem of squatters in abandoned homes and the safety concerns that come with this.
From so-called drug dens to indoor campfire cooking, local Pennsylvania authorities are working to mitigate a"We're stuck dealing with it for 10 plus years until the bank sells [an abandoned home] or until it gets so bad that it eventually falls down or we take it down," Jeannette fire chief Bill Frye saidAccording to the chief, the Pittsburgh suburb saw a massive population decrease in the early 80s after factory doors were closed and jobs lost.
"At one point about 10 years ago, we estimated 700 vacant buildings. We have been aggressively addressing it," Frye said. "I think we're down to about 250 now, which doesn't seem like a lot to some of the bigger urban cities like Detroit and Trenton, but we're less than three square miles. That's a pretty big deal to us."
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