Columbus recently upped its commitment to preserving and developing affordable housing in the city's South Side, bringing the investment among the city, Community Development for All People, Nationwide Children's Hospital, [...]
COHHIO’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) team recently created a new tool that helps visualize the severity of homelessness throughout Ohio’s 88 counties. For the first time ever, aggregate data [...]
The strategy of Diversion is based on the notion that it’s better to help someone avoid homelessness than to wait and figure out how to restore housing stability once they’ve [...]
The world of homeless services is full of many different terms and acronyms that providers must be familiar with in order to stay on top of best practices and HUD-mandated [...]
Only two of the top 10 occupations in Ohio actually pay their employees enough to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment, according to a report released Wednesday. Ohio’s housing wage increased [...]
Nearly 60,000 Ohioans experienced homelessness in 2016. Almost one-third of them were children. Nearly 10,000 were victims of domestic abuse. The data source is understood to be an undercount and [...]
In February 2018 Ohio became the 28th state to extend foster care. However, different from child welfare, Ohio BRIDGES is a completely voluntary program designed to promote permanency and self-sufficiency. [...]
Every day hundreds of homeless and housing agencies across the state work directly with low-income people whose opinions, needs and struggles are largely ignored by our political leaders. And many [...]
HUD recently announced a new round of National Housing Trust Fund allocations totaling $266.8 million, which includes nearly $7 million for Ohio to address housing needs for very low and [...]
Since 2016 there has been talk buzzing around that SOAR Ohio would be ending. As the SOAR Ohio State Lead with COHHIO, please let me announce for clarification, that has [...]
