affordable housing

Residents of The Evanston, a Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority complex, say a former onsite property manager made off with their rent money. Now they've received notice their leases are being terminated.

The 948 housing units are all affordable to residents making 80% or less of the area median income, and most are affordable at 60% AMI.

The quasi-public development authority purchased the 194 single-family rental properties from California-based Raineth Housing in 2021. It has since sold many of them to first-time homebuyers.

The grant-funded project includes a design competition and city-funded demonstration projects.

The goal is to increase housing and improve the health of residents.

Eleven residents who face doubling rent will get help from the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority.

Landlords of subsidized affordable housing, as well as landlords with fewer than 20 units, can list on the website for free.

The 25-year-old development currently has 686 units. The housing authority wants to sell 105 of them along John Street, but says it will be able to offer residents other housing in City West or the neighborhood more broadly.

We'll discuss a working group's progress and a program to help Cincinnati homeowners who owe unpaid property taxes.

Many Ohioans in some of the state's most common professions don't earn enough to afford a basic two-bedroom apartment.