Homeport Brings ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition to Columbus

NeighborWorks member Homeport aka Columbus Housing Partnership assisted the ABC network program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to bring attention to the Rhodes family and the forgotten Ohio neighborhood called American Addition, where they lived.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, the neighborhood has been singled out by Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman as “the most egregiously neglected urban neighborhood I have ever seen.” Homeport has committed to the transformation of American Addition and has worked with the Mayor to secure invetments of $5 million to rebuild streets and alleys and install sidewalks, lights, curbs, waterlines and storm-sewer lines.  The City, in partnership with Homeport will also invest federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds in the development of 150 new homes in the neighborhood.