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 to local homeless services, but [...]
Opportunity Starts at Home – Week of Action!
A U.S. House committee recently passed a robust housing and homeless budget bill - a clear bipartisan rejection of President Trump’s adverse position on affordable housing investments and policy. Let’s [...]
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 on the mind and body. [...]
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 the Department of Housing and [...]
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 a lot lately. Here's a [...]
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 time, the agency proposes to [...]
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 the construction, acquisition and rehabilitation [...]
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 for the Housing Ohio conference! [...]
OHTF Statehouse Build
Team COHHIO donned hardhats and spent May Day with Habitat for Humanity building a home on the Statehouse lawn - a great place to spotlight the need to do more [...]
Alert: Affordable Housing Under Attack
Please take a moment to add your organization to this letter of opposition to Senate Bill 36 in the Statehouse. In the midst of our growing affordable housing shortage, this [...]
