Breaking Ground – Spring 2020
Spring 2020 The coronavirus has proven that housing really is healthcare. COHHIO and our partners on the frontlines have been doing everything we can to help Ohioans who have no [...]
Economic Impact Payments for People Experiencing Homelessness
From IRS Legislative Affairs Division Topic: Economic Impact Payments for the Homeless Key Points: Here’s one where we need your help. Please share the following social media messages with taxpayers, [...]
Bill’s Update on Covid & Homelessness
Homeless shelters throughout Ohio are scrambling to obtain masks, gloves, cleaning supplies, staffing, and food. Even more critically, they need to reduce the population density within these congregate facilities to [...]
Race, Homelessness, and COVID-19
Guidance for Homeless Services Providers and Partners As the COVID-19 pandemic surges through Ohio and the nation, new and historic dimensions of inequality are left exposed. African-Americans already fare relatively [...]
COHHIO Pandemic Fund Helps Homeless Shelters Save Lives
Nonprofit Delivers Emergency Assistance to Frontline Agencies The Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio is issuing grants tto help local homeless shelters limit the spread of COVID-19 among their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Housing Allies Breakfast Break
Recognizing that housing insecurity intersects with so many other public policy issues, COHHIO has created a new forum advocates of all stripes to share updates on their efforts to improve [...]
