As many of our neighbors in southwestern Ohio already know, challenges around housing and community development are persistent. But as we’ve seen over this inaugural year of reporting on Brick by Brick, there are a plethora of solutions either underway already in our region, or possibly worth bringing here. Spoiler alert: none of these solutions are ‘silver bullets’ to the problems of housing stability, or […]
Housing Choice Vouchers are portable subsidies that low-income families can use to lower their rents in the private market. But is this 50-year old solution to the housing crisis working as well as it should? The Department of Housing and Urban Development and local entities like the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority and Greater Dayton Premier Management, which receive the federal funds from HUD to issue […]
