COHHIO Updates

Report Details Growing Gap Between High Rents, Low Wages

Only three out of the 10 most common jobs in Ohio actually pay employees enough to afford a modest two-bedroom [...]

Racial Equity & Homelessness Convenings

Why are nearly half the people in Ohio's homeless system black when African-Americans make up only 12 percent of the [...]

Homelessness & Housing Services Resource Guide

For the first time in Ohio, people struggling with homelessness - and those trying to assist them - can now [...]

Findlay Hope House Tour

Former Mayor Lydia Mihalik, who now oversees housing and community development programs for the state, returned home Friday to see [...]

Expand the Ohio Housing Trust Fund

COHHIO, and other members of the Home Matters to Ohio coalition, is calling on the Ohio Senate to expand the [...]

Breaking Ground – Spring 2019

May 2019 We’ve received a lot of calls recently from legislators and their staffers asking for guidance to respond to [...]

Bill’s Spring Update

We’ve received a lot of calls recently from legislators and their staffers asking for guidance to respond to homeless constituents [...]

Opportunity Starts at Home – Week of Action!

A U.S. House committee recently passed a robust housing and homeless budget bill - a clear bipartisan rejection of President [...]

Homelessness is Expensive

Homelessness is expensive. To some people it seems like a contradiction. To others it’s just obvious – living on the [...]

HUD Moves to Evict Children, Allow LGBTQ Discrimination

The Trump Administration continues its efforts to punish vulnerable children of immigrants and roll back regulations that prevent discrimination, this [...]

Spring News Clips

Homelessness and the affordable housing shortage - and the potential for policymakers to actually do something about these problems - [...]

Payday Lending – the Saga Continues…

Borrowers beware! The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to undermine consumer protections that are the core of the agency's mission [...]

Southeast Ohio YHDP Update

Southeast Ohio Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) projects began in December 2018, and in the months since have significantly ramped [...]