Emergency Rental Assistance

If you’re having trouble paying your rent or utility bills, help is available!

Use this directory to find out how to apply for Emergency Rental Assistance (also called the Ohio Home Relief program) in your county.

COHHIO Updates

Rapidly Rising Rents Keep Homes Out of Reach in Ohio Full-time workers need to earn at least $17.05 an hour [...]

HUD announced in June availability of $322 million for communities to develop new projects to address unsheltered homelessness in rural [...]

COHHIO is pleased to partner with the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio (AHACO) to present the Statewide Edition of [...]

Updated June 2022 Legislation currently pending in the Ohio House Finance Committee has the potential to expand the Ohio Housing [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 16, 2022 COHHIO Names Amy Riegel to Serve as New Executive Director The Coalition on Homelessness [...]

Proposal to Invest ARPA Funds in Affordable Housing (Updated August 2022) COHHIO and over 230 companies and organizations are asking [...]

The American Rescue Plan (ARPA) and other federal Covid response legislation created new resources that local advocates can use to [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2022 Report Underscores Need to Invest in Affordable Housing Recovery Housing advocates released data Thursday [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2022 The Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio applauded the DeWine Administration Wednesday for [...]

Spring 2022 Update: President Biden's Fiscal Year 2023 budget request would increase funding for HUD's housing and homelessness by $6.2 [...]

Black History Month is an annual commemoration of the best of Black life and culture in our history, a time [...]

Winter 2022 As we settle in to the new year we’re facing real challenges – the Omicron variant, skyrocketing housing [...]