COHHIO works closely with our partners in Washington, like the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the National Alliance to End Homelessness, to monitor and influence federal policies on housing and homelessness.
Statement on Gov. DeWine’s Efforts to Protect Homeless Ohioans from COVID-19
Bill Faith, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, issued the following statement in response to Gov. Mike DeWine’s efforts to assist local homeless programs that are struggling to implement CDC [...]
Immediate Action Needed to Help Communities Respond to COVID-19 and Homelessness
Housing advocates and public health experts described a “dual crisis” facing Ohio Wednesday as emergency shelters struggle to respond to a coronavirus outbreak among people experiencing homelessness. The Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio’s [...]
Advocates Call for Solutions to Ohio’s Affordable Housing Shortage
Housing advocates urged state and federal policymakers Tuesday to take more aggressive action to reduce the shortage of 256,875 rental units that are affordable and available to extremely low-income Ohioans. The Gap report jointly released [...]
Defend Community Reinvestment and Civil Rights!
Help us stand up to the Trump administration's efforts to gut two critical rules that require banks to invest in disenfranchised communities and require communities to address housing discrimination. 1. Community Reinvestment Act: Congress passed [...]
New Bank Rules Threaten Investment in Ohio’s Struggling Communities
Civil rights and housing advocates warned Thursday that the Trump administration’s proposed bank rules would reduce critical investment in low-income communities throughout Ohio. Tom Roberts, president of the Ohio Conference of Units of the NAACP, [...]
Eviction Crisis Act
COHHIO Advocacy Director Gina Wilt was one of several housing advocates who joined Sen. Rob Portman at a recent roundtable in Columbus to discuss the impact of evictions on struggling families and how his proposed [...]
