You need to read more of what is published recently; I didn't write the stuff, but I do trust the folks who did the studies and are putting it in front of folks who are making investment decisions around the city and the university; big decisions that are driving the city forward; with things like the CyberSecurity center, EcoSystem center, etc. My head isn't buried at all, its upright, interested, motivated, and just reporting what is the current information coming from apparently folks you don't and won't trust.
Well, when the population in HUNTINGTON and CABELL COUNTY and ALL surrounding counties in WV continues to DECLINE where is a great surge in demand coming from? Can't believe a large number of people living in and around nearby the Ashland, KY area are looking for HOUSING IN HUNTINTON!! Same goes for those in the Ironton-Portsmouth area in Ohio also. So Huntington, with population of just a little over 40,000 or so and continuing to fall has 20,000 jobs in the City? And people outside the City are commuting in every day to said jobs? Don't you think that even if there are that # of jobs in the City, that many of them are filled by people already in the City and not all of them just commuting into town to work?
Yes, the City has too much sub-standard housing, mainly due to abandoned houses, buildings, etc., left to deteriorate as people left town year after year for DECADES!! If the demand was so great, why haven't contractors, builders, etc., moved into the City, razed much of the abandoned housing and other run down building stock, and build apartments, row houses, single family homes, etc., to meet such great demand? Why was the main emphasis/impetus of the current Mayor's tenure the giving away of Free Needles to Junkies instead of Building MUCH NEEDED housing in the City to accommodate all the JOB seekers there as well as other looking for somewhere to live in the City?? Yes, hopefully the situation will improve as such nearby projects like Nucor in Mason County become reality, but I wonder how many people from Huntington who find work there will be willing to commute ?Rt. 2, a 2 lane road, for years, or even decades, and instead will try to find places to live much closer, like in Mason County? Hopefully this project, and others, are signs that the area in and around Huntington/Cabell County are taking a turn for the better. But until the population of the City, County and other close by WV counties shows legitimate GROWTH, then please don't state that Huntington is "en fuego"!!!
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