BoSCoC to Launch Online Education Resource for Providers
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 [...]
Report: Ohio Jobs Don’t Pay Enough to Afford the Rent
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 [...]
Bill’s May Update
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 [...]
Ohio BRIDGES
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. [...]
‘Voterize’ Your Community!
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 [...]
National Housing Trust Fund Allocates $7 Million to Ohio
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 [...]
SOAR is still soaring!
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 [...]
In Other Developments – Spring 2018
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency just announced the 2018 Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) awards totaling more than $28 million for construction, acquisition and rehabilitation of 2,122 units serving [...]
BoSCoC To Launch Coordinated Entry Toolkit
Since Coordinated Entry (CE) was implemented in January 2018, the Ohio Balance of State Continuum of Care has continued to provide ongoing training and technical assistance to providers. In addition [...]
In Other Developments…
Lighthouse Youth and Family Services opens Sheakley Center for Youth As Hamilton County groups are working to end youth homelessness by 2020, Lighthouse Youth and Family Services recently increased the [...]
