PITTSBURGH -- Greenfield residents could finally see a fix to a dangerous problem.

Many homes on Ivondale Street in Greenfield are reportedly falling apart due to a city-owned hillside that continues to slide.

City officials hinted at a possible plan to buy the abandoned homes.

“If it occurs, I couldn’t be happier,” said City Council President Doug Shields, “and I am certain not only personally but for the poor people on Ivondale Street. They’ve been through heck.”

According to residents, the hillside is so dangerous that garbage cannot be picked up regularly.

“A fire truck cannot get up there,” said resident Gene Gula. “The roads are caving in.”

The city buyout would include a home where a suspect was accused of raping a young girl.

In July, the mayor of Pittsburgh promised to tear down an empty house were a young girl was raped. A 46-year-old man charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in Pittsburgh waived his preliminary hearing on Thursday.

Clyde Haidle, 46, was charged with raping a girl in an abandoned Greenfield home along Ivondale Street in May.

Friday, city officials cited safety reasons and said the house should go.

Shields said Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is the only person with the authority to take the house down.

To push the issue, Shields said he will hold a public hearing on the house in a few weeks.

Every day the city delays the project forces the victim’s family to remember the tragic incident.

"I'd like to see him stay in jail for the rest of his life," the girl's father said.

He also addressed Pittsburgh City Council and told them they need to act now before someone else gets hurt.

“There have been calls on the abandoned house up there,” he said. “This has been an ongoing issue, and I just think it is time that this situation is addressed before other things happen there.”

Police found Haidle hiding in his home, under floor boards that were part of a makeshift trap door he had built.

He has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

Since Haidle's arrest, Channel 11 News has learned that he spent nearly 15 years in the Oklahoma prison system for rape and other charges, but never had to register as a sex offender.

That's because Haidle was convicted in 1987, which means he was never required to notify Oklahoma authorities when he relocated to Pennsylvania.

His prior crimes all came when he lived in Oklahoma. There, he was convicted of first-degree rape by force, attempted rape, robbery with a dangerous weapon and sodomy. All of the convictions were in 1987. He was imprisoned until January 2002.

Channel 11 contacted the sex offender registry in Oklahoma and discovered that Megan’s Law took effect in 1989 in Oklahoma.