Jeannette leaders say they have a plan to address blighted properties

There are about 19 blighted buildings that Jeannette is looking to demolish. The city wants to bring those buildings down because they're a public nuisance, officials said.

Driving around Jeannette, you can see some properties and buildings that need some work, but then there are properties that are condemned with roofs caving in, windows boarded up and warning signs on the doors.

Those are the properties that the city says must go. Jeannette Mayor Curtis Antoniak says these buildings are dangerous.

"We once had a population of over 17,000 people. Now, we are a little bit over 9,000 people," Antoniak said. "You are going to have empty buildings with rodents. People go in and sleep in them. They are drug havens for drug addicts, and it is very unsafe."

Jeannette City Manager Ethan Keedy