Infant Mortality Demonstration Project
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency recently announced a pilot program to demonstrate the impact that targeted housing assistance can have on the infant mortality crisis. OHFA is making available up [...]
Reform the Mortgage Interest Deduction
A new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) shows how the federal mortgage interest deduction (MID) can be fixed to help lower income homeowners that really need [...]
Financial Management for Nonprofits Training
COHHIO is pleased to announce another series of the Financial Management for Non-Profit Organizations training opportunities around the state. Terry Edwards, senior external auditor with the Ohio Development Services Agency, [...]
COHHIO Workers’ Compensation July Update
Our friends at CareWorksComp have some important information for COHHIO members enrolled in our Worker's Compensation Group Rating Program: UPDATE! The payroll True-up period for private employers begins July [...]
Medicaid Expansion Survives Latest Crisis
After COHHIO staff joined hundreds of other advocates at a Statehouse rally earlier this week, the Ohio House decided not to insist on a wrong-headed plan that would cut 500,000 [...]
Farewell Cathy Johnston
Our longtime Advocacy Director Cathy Johnston is retiring after 20 years of tireless and devoted service advancing COHHIO’s mission to end homelessness and expand affordable housing throughout Ohio. Cathy, a [...]
Housing Trust Fund Update: Final Budget
The final bill that emerged from the budget conference committee this week does not include the Home Matters to Ohio coalition's proposal to expand the Ohio Housing Trust Fund. While [...]
State Utility Regulators Rule for Tenants (Mostly)
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio recently ruled that submetering companies can no longer charge tenants exorbitant prices for gas, electricity and water services. For many years the state has [...]
LGBTQ Cultural Competency Training of Trainers
The Coalition on Homelessness and Housing In Ohio (COHHIO), in partnership with Safe and Supported, is offering a FREE LGBTQ Cultural Competency Training of Trainers (TOT) to help ensure that [...]
Affordable Housing Out of Reach in Ohio
Ohio’s Housing Wage increased again this year to $15.00 an hour – the hourly amount renters need to earn to afford rent for a basic, two-bedroom apartment, according to a [...]