COHHIO Updates
Legislature Boosts the Ohio Housing Trust Fund!
Advocates thanked leaders of the Ohio legislature for increasing support for local homeless and affordable housing programs in the state [...]
Sign On to Keep Families Together
“Proposed Rule Could Evict 55,000 Children From Subsidized Housing" That’s the headline from a recent NPR story about the Trump [...]
HUD Makes $150 Million Available for Mainstream Vouchers
This is an extremely important opportunity to increase affordable housing resources in your community in a way that can directly [...]
UPDATE: Expand the Ohio Housing Trust Fund
The Ohio Senate passed its budget last week with an amendment that would generate about $1.5 million in additional revenue [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
