ADVOCACY UPDATE: Senate Restores Ohio Housing Trust Fund
Updated June 26, 2025: Good news! The legislature rejected a budget amendment that would have gutted the Ohio Housing Trust Fund! The legislature approved the budget bill (HB 96) last [...]
2025 Gap Report Shows Shortage of Affordable Homes in Ohio
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 13, 2025 Report Finds Shortage of 264,000 Affordable Rental Homes in Ohio Advocates released a report Thursday showing that Ohio made modest progress toward reducing the [...]
COHHIO In Your Community – Findings
In early 2024, COHHIO Executive Director Amy Riegel set the goal of organizing community meetings throughout the state to reinvigorate the organization's connection to local residents and to gather feedback [...]
March Federal Advocacy Alert
Updated March 28 Please join us in taking action to protect federal housing programs and HUD staff! Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is proposing to cut HUD staff [...]
Homelessness in Ohio – 2024
HUD's recent 2024 Annual Homeless Assessment Report shows overall homelessness in Ohio increased 3% last year to 11,759. While any increase in homelessness is concerning, it's considerably less than the [...]
COHHIO Statement on Gov. DeWine’s Executive Budget
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 4, 2025 COHHIO Statement on Gov. DeWine's Executive Budget Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio's Executive Director Amy Riegel issued the following statement in response [...]
Federal Funds Freeze Briefing
Thank you for joining us for Thursday’s briefing on the federal funding freeze. We had nearly 500 participants, so we know there’s a lot of concern. You can download the [...]
News and Clips – January 2025
HUD recently released its annual report to Congress that shows the national homelessness rate increased by a whopping 18% in one year. Here in Ohio, the increase was only 3%. [...]
Advocates, Business Groups Unite Around Plan to Address Ohio’s Affordable Housing Crisis
For Immediate Release Dec. 10, 2024 Homeless and business advocacy groups joined forces Tuesday to urge the next General Assembly to enact policies that reverse housing cost inflation and ensure [...]
2025 Candidate Surveys
We know affordable housing and homelessness is a big issue for Ohio's voters, but what do Ohio's Congressional and Statehouse candidate think should be done? COHHIO surveyed all of Ohio’s [...]
