Advocating for state and federal policies to promote affordable housing and end homelessness is one of COHHIO’s core functions. For decades COHHIO has given voice to the underrepresented, fighting to end homelessness and ensure all Ohioans have a safe, decent, affordable home.
See recent updates on the issues we’re working at the right. Visit the following pages for more information about COHHIO’s advocacy on Federal Issues, State Issues, the Ohio Housing Trust Fund (OHTF), and OhioVOTES. For press releases and coverage on these issues, visit the Media Room.
Advocacy Updates
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 seeking assistance. We connect them [...]
Opportunity Starts at Home – Week of Action!
A U.S. House committee recently passed a robust housing and homeless service spending bill thanks to the leadership of House Subcommittee Chair David Price (D-NC) [...]
Homelessness is Expensive
Homelessness is expensive. To some people it seems like a contradiction. To others it’s just obvious – living on the land takes a huge toll [...]
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 time through new rules at [...]
Spring News Clips
Homelessness and the affordable housing shortage - and the potential for policymakers to actually do something about these problems - have appeared in the news [...]
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 and reason for existence. This [...]
In Other Developments – Spring 2019
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency Board recently announced over $28.5 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credit awards for 2019, which are used to fund [...]
Expand the Ohio Housing Trust Fund
COHHIO, and other members of the Home Matters to Ohio coalition, called on the Ohio Senate this week to expand the Ohio Housing Trust Fund [...]
Housing Ohio 2019 Followup
Thank you to everyone who was part of our 25th anniversary conference this spring. We had a grand total of 612 guests – another record [...]
