Housing Our Future
Strategies for Cincinnati and Hamilton County
2020 - 2023 Summary of Progress
Housing Our Future provides a roadmap to producing and preserving affordable housing and to protecting vulnerable residents from housing insecurity in Cincinnati and Hamilton County. We have a network of dedicated partners who help make a reigon where residents thrive. Read on to see how we make a difference, together.
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HOUSING OUR FUTURE is the collaborative effort of a broad coalition of stakeholders across Cincinnati and Hamilton County, representing the public, private and non-profit sectors. These stakeholders participated in the Steering Committee and five Working Groups that met over the course of a year to develop a Strategy that focuses on the need to preserve and produce affordable housing, protect existing residents, and make underlying system changes that will increase:
- Access to Homeownership
- Production of Housing Units
- Preservation of Existing Affordable Housing
- Equitable Zoning and Policies
- Resources and Financing to Meet these Goals
In addition, this Strategy incorporates recommendations provided by the Eviction Task force, the Homeless Clearinghouse, and the Property Tax Working Group.
LISC Greater Cincinnati leads implementation of the Housing Our Future strategy.
Are you interested in learning more about housing in Northern Kentucky? Check out the recently released Northern Kentucky Housing Data analysis to learn more about housing inventory, cost, and relationship to economic conditions and jobs in the eight-county Northern Kentucky region here.
The guiding vision for this Strategy is that everyone in Cincinnati and Hamilton County will have access to quality affordable housing in the places they want to live.
This Strategy is founded on seven core values:
- Putting people first
- Promoting choice
- Fostering diversity
- Advancing equity
- Cultivating collaboration
- Challenging the status quo
- Confronting racist and discriminatory policies and practices
This Strategy puts forth policies and programs designed to:
- Protect our most vulnerable residents
- Preserve and develop long-term affordability
- Invest in housing that builds strong, inclusive communities
- Create equitable growth without displacement
- Build the capacity for development and innovative ownership structures
- Provide pathways to sustainable homeownership and generational wealth creation
Steering Committee members include:
- Mo Adlon, Cincinnati Development Fund
- Kristen Baker, LISC Greater Cincinnati
- Liz Blume, Blume Community Partners
- Mary Burke Rivers, Over-the-Rhine Community Housing
- Barbara Busch, Working in Neighborhoods
- Maria Collins, Hamilton County
- Valerie Daley, LISC Greater Cincinnati
- Philip Denning, The Port
- Kevin Finn, Strategies to End Homelessness
- Gina Hemenway, Mercy Health Cincinnati
- Ryan James, United Way of Greater Cincinnati
- Gregory Johnson, Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority
- Robert Killins, Jr., Greater Cincinnati Foundation
- Pete Metz, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
- Jessica Powell, Talbert House
- Gary Painter, University of Cincinnati
- Elisabeth Risch, Housing Opportunities Made Equal
- John Schrider, Legal Aid Society of Southwest Ohio
- Kathy Schwab, Community volunteer
- Robie Suggs, Warsaw Federal
- Denise Taylor, Greater Cincinnati Realtist Association
- David Thompson, Model Group
- William Weber, City of Cincinnati
- Larry Williams, The Cincinnatus Association
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