{"id":66279,"date":"2026-02-13T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/how-neglectful-or-absentee-investors-fuel-toledo-ohios-post-pandemic-housing-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:57:39","slug":"how-neglectful-or-absentee-investors-fuel-toledo-ohios-post-pandemic-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/how-neglectful-or-absentee-investors-fuel-toledo-ohios-post-pandemic-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018neglectful or absentee\u2019 investors fuel Toledo, Ohio\u2019s post-pandemic housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out-of-state investors buy cheap homes in the city, leaving working residents struggling with substandard housing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/toledo-ohio-housing-crisis\">\u2018My bill keeps escalating\u2019: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Berkshire Place in north-west Toledo is an unremarkable street of potholes and unembellished single-family homes in a working-class <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ohio\">Ohio<\/a> neighborhood like thousands of others across the US\u2019s industrial heartland.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, a three-bedroom, two bath house on the street with children\u2019s toys and bikes strewn around its snow-covered yard was sold for the princely sum of $20,000 to an entity called J Kushner &amp; Associates with an address in Bet Shemesh, Israel. It had recently been put up for rent for $1,600. That means the Israel-based owner or owners would, at that price, make a return on their initial investment in just a little over a year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/investors-toledo-ohio-housing-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out-of-state investors buy cheap homes in the city, leaving working residents struggling with substandard housing \u2018My bill keeps escalating\u2019: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis Berkshire Place in north-west Toledo is an unremarkable street of potholes and unembellished single-family homes in a working-class Ohio neighborhood like thousands of others across &#8230; <a title=\"How \u2018neglectful or absentee\u2019 investors fuel Toledo, Ohio\u2019s post-pandemic housing crisis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/how-neglectful-or-absentee-investors-fuel-toledo-ohios-post-pandemic-housing-crisis\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How \u2018neglectful or absentee\u2019 investors fuel Toledo, Ohio\u2019s post-pandemic housing crisis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}