Two Toledo neighborhoods could soon see millions in federal dollars to combat blight, improve community [Video]

They are areas that community leaders like Alicia Smith with The Junction Coalition said have been ignored since before the 1960s.

“They are both designated areas by HUD that have been disinvested and disenfranchised,” Smith said.

Drive into either, and you will find blighted homes everywhere, and the streets they rot on are targets for the city’s anti-crime efforts.

But Toledo’s city council is trying to reverse this trajectory, moving one step closer to approving $4 million in grant money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, passing the money …