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Affordable housing has become a hot-button issue in Greater Cincinnati over the last few years, garnering media attention, promises from elected officials and no small amount of debate.
That debate is culminating in a ballot initiative called Issue 3 that is before Cincinnati voters May 4. If passed, it would require the city to spend $50 million a year on affordable housing.
Research has shown rising rents and big gaps between the number of available rental housing units and area residents, especially those with low incomes looking for housing they can afford in Hamilton County. Some skeptics question the exact number of units needed, however, and there is little consensus on how to address that need.
Marjorie Parham, publisher emerita of the Cincinnati Herald, dead at 103 Cincinnati Councilwoman Yvetta Simpson presents a resolution to honor Majorie Parham as a community leader and honor her more than 30 years of service as the owner and publisher of the Cincinnati Herald. (Source: The Enquirer/Kareem Elgazzar) By Anne Saker | April 15, 2021 at 8:43 PM EDT - Updated April 15 at 8:44 PM
CINCINNATI (Enquirer) - Marjorie Parham, an accidental publisher who took control of the Cincinnati Herald after her husbandâs death and for more than 30 years made the newspaper a guide star for the regionâs Black residents as well as the city, died Wednesday, according to our media partners at the Enquirer.
Updating with list of survivors, funeral arrangements; donations may be made to the National Association of Black Journalists.
Marjorie Parham, an accidental publisher who took control of the Cincinnati Herald after her husband’s death and for more than 30 years made the newspaper a guide star for the region’s Black residents as well as the city, died Tuesday. She was 103.
Dr. Rhonda Spillers Washington, Parham s granddaughter, said Parham died in her sleep at her longtime home in the Cottingham retirement community in Sharonville. Washington said Parham had otherwise been in good health with no COVID and had been vaccinated in December.
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While it sounds arcane, zoning code is something akin to a city s DNA. The rules about what can be built and where someone can build it determine how a city looks and feels, and sometimes, who can live in its various neighborhoods.
The history of modern zoning practices has its roots in the early parts of the last century, when municipalities across the country used them to attempt to preserve segregation in the face of U.S. Supreme Court rulings striking down more overtly discriminatory laws.
Today, zoning has useful purposes like making sure no one can build a toxic waste dump next to your house. But some advocates have called for reconsidering some cities reliance on zoning rules that forbid anything other than single family housing in many neighborhoods. Minneapolis recently relaxed many of its rules around single-family only zoning, and now, advocates like those running an Instagram account called Legalize Housing want Cincinnati to do the sa