Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman is chair of City Council s new Affordable Housing Subcommittee. I think it s important that if we re using numbers, we at least know that we re using 2010 numbers in 2021, Smitherman said in late March. And we don t know; those numbers could be bigger, those numbers could be smaller.
Michael Jones, a professor of economics at the University of Cincinnati, thinks the gap is quite a bit smaller. He researches labor and public economics, and says he got interested in housing after reading a WVXU article about council members wanting more recent data.
He decided to take a look for himself, and presented his findings to the subcommittee in mid-April. His analysis is based on a report published in March from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
What s the problem with affordable housing in Greater Cincinnati, and how can the region solve it? Affordable housing is front and center
Housing is considered affordable if it costs no more than 30% of a family s household income. Thousands of Tri-State residents spend more than that on housing, though. So why does that matter and what can be done?
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CINCINNATI â Alexis Harris knows what itâs like to rent a place thatâs just beyond affordable.
She lives in East Walnut Hills with her teenager and 10-year-old and spends about 35% of her income on their housing.
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JOHNSTOWN Thanks to a $776,948 increase in state and federal aid, the Greater Johnstown School District school board Thursday night adopted its first budget in four years that doesn’t seek to break the New York state tax cap.
All school board members in attendance Thursday night voted to adopt the proposed $39.96 million 2021-22 budget. The budget includes a 2.5% year-over-year spending increase of $992,700 and a 3.8% property tax levy increase of $393,247. The budget spends $2.5 million of the school district’s roughly $13.2 million in fund balance reserves, $519,767 less than the reserve spending for the 2020-21 school budget.
20 years since the civil unrest, how close is Cincinnati to achieving equity? This mom says not very It s an endless cycle
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Twenty years ago, in the early morning hours of April 7, 2001, Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach shot and killed 19-year-old Timothy Thomas in an Over-the-Rhine alley. Thomas was the 15th Black man killed by police since 1995, and his death sparked days of unrest that highlighted a deep divide between Cincinnatiâs Black community and the police. That mistrust, along with lawsuits accusing the department of a decades-long history of racial profiling, helped shape the Collaborative Agreement. We hope our coverage online, on air and on all streaming platforms will start a conversation about what led to the unrest, what has happened since and what work remains to be done.