ADVOCACY UPDATE: Senate Restores Ohio Housing Trust Fund
Updated June 3, 2025: Good news! The Senate released its substitute version of the biennial budget (HB 96) removing a harmful House amendment that would have gutted the Ohio Housing [...]
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 [...]
COHHIO Advocacy Day 2024
COHHIO hosted our first post-pandemic Advocacy Day at the Ohio Statehouse on Oct. 9. From local service providers to those with lived experience, COHHIO was joined by over 60 advocates [...]
Gap Between Rents and Wages Grows Wider
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2023 Ohio Senate Budget Puts Housing Further Out of Reach Full-time workers need to earn at least $19.09 an hour to afford a modest 2-bedroom [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lame Duck Statehouse Exacerbates Ohio’s Affordable Housing Crisis
DEC. 21, 2022 Lame Duck Statehouse Exacerbates Ohio’s Affordable Housing Crisis Advocates Urge DeWine to Use Veto Pen State lawmakers not only missed the opportunity to address Ohio’s affordable housing [...]
COHHIO Names Amy Riegel to Serve as New Executive Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 16, 2022 COHHIO Names Amy Riegel to Serve as New Executive Director The Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio’s Board of Directors on Monday announced [...]
Breaking Ground Newsletter – Winter 2022
Winter 2022 As we settle in to the new year we’re facing real challenges – the Omicron variant, skyrocketing housing costs, deadlock in Congress. Despite these huge problems, I’m feeling [...]
Farewell and Welcome COHHIO Staff
We saw a lot of staffing changes in 2021 and we'll see more in 2022 as Executive Director Bill Faith retires and COHHIO hires additional team members. We are [...]
Bill’s Retiring
Dear Friends and Supporters, After 35 years leading COHHIO, I have given our Board of Directors notice that I plan to retire in six months and then work with new [...]
