Bill’s Year End Message
December 2020 No one will forget 2020. It was a year full of so much misery and chaos, but it’s ending on a positive note now that Congress just approved [...]
Ohio Homelessness Increasing Even Before Covid-19
In their recent report Confronting Homelessness, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency found that the number of Ohioans experiencing homelessness each year 30.8 percent from 2012 to 2018, while the state's [...]
Statement on Shooting Death of Casey Goodson Jr.
Once again, a Black man has been murdered by law enforcement in Ohio. Casey Christopher Goodson, Jr., just 23-years-old, had his life cut short at the hands of those who [...]
Basic Needs Press Conference
ADVOCATES URGE ROBUST COVID-19 RELIEF FOR STRUGGLING OHIO FAMILIES COLUMBUS, Ohio [December 3, 2020] – Representatives from the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, the Coalition on Homelessness and [...]
No-Cost Rides to Access Food Resources for Medicaid Members
Important Information from Ohio's Medicaid Managed Care Plans: As Ohio continues to grapple with the COVID-19 crisis, we are working hard to ensure our most vulnerable citizens maintain reliable access to [...]
At-Risk Tenants Urged to Apply for Eviction Moratorium
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPT. 22, 2020 CONTACT: Marcus Roth, marcusroth@cohhio.org At-Risk Tenants Urged to Apply for Eviction Moratorium Housing advocates on Tuesday advised tenants facing eviction to act immediately to [...]
CDC Eviction Moratorium
Help for Tenants Facing Eviction If you are facing eviction because you cannot pay the rent, you must take action in order to get protection under the CDC's eviction moratorium! [...]
Evicted or in between places? You still have the right to VOTE
Now might not seem like the time to worry about the next election if you’re about to lose your home. But whether or not you care about politics, politics directly [...]
Breaking Ground – Summer 2020
Summer 2020 We’re six months into this pandemic – the strangest, most nerve racking period of my life as a homeless advocate – and I’m filled with two conflicting emotions: [...]
Housing Info Line Keeps Housing Authority In Line
Sometimes COHHIO's Housing Information Line needs to remind housing authority officials to follow their own policies when it comes to raising the rent on vulnerable tenants. Mr. Williams first called [...]
