In Other Developments…
WSOS Community Action opens Commons at Little Bark Creek Older Ohioans who want or need to live with younger kin often have very few housing options outside of homeownership. Low-income [...]
Webinar Series: Ending Homelessness in Ohio
The Ohio Housing and Homelessness Collaborative is offering a webinar series between Nov. 30 and Dec. 19 entitled “Effective Strategies to End Homelessness in Ohio” in advance of the forthcoming [...]
Bill’s Thanksgiving Update on Washington
This Thanksgiving break will be a much-needed pause in the whirlwind of activity in Washington, where politicians have been working on legislation that could devastate our desperately needed affordable housing [...]
SOAR Ohio Annual Meeting
One of the best parts of my role as the SOAR Ohio Project Coordinator is being able to get our entire team together for our yearly meeting, which provides SOAR [...]
LaToya’s Story
LaToya, a single mother, called the Housing Information Line when her landlord served her with an eviction notice just days after he had agreed to accept late payment. She had [...]
In Other Developments…
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency recently announced the 2017 awards for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program. Funding totaling over $27 million in tax credits was awarded for preservation [...]
Infant Mortality Demonstration Project
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency recently announced a pilot program to demonstrate the impact that targeted housing assistance can have on the infant mortality crisis. OHFA is making available up [...]
Reform the Mortgage Interest Deduction
A new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) shows how the federal mortgage interest deduction (MID) can be fixed to help lower income homeowners that really need [...]
Financial Management for Nonprofits Training
COHHIO is pleased to announce another series of the Financial Management for Non-Profit Organizations training opportunities around the state. Terry Edwards, senior external auditor with the Ohio Development Services Agency, [...]
State Utility Regulators Rule for Tenants (Mostly)
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio recently ruled that submetering companies can no longer charge tenants exorbitant prices for gas, electricity and water services. For many years the state has [...]
