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Inclusive �Housing �Initiative �for the Central Ohio Region

Loeb Collaboratory, June 11, 2021

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The Question:�How will we make housing A Right �in the Central Ohio region?

We Are:

housing advocacy organizations,

social service agencies,

and

planning organizations

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The Question:�How will we make housing A Right �in the Central Ohio region?

What we will do:

  • Expand decision makers’ understanding
  • Remove roadblocks to increasing housing stock and creating mixed-income communities
  • Advance specific, targeted programs and projects

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The Context:�U.S. national housing trends

  • undersupply and increasing prices
  • underfunding for affordability
  • labor and material shortages
  • rising production costs
  • exclusionary zoning
  • NIMBYism
  • etc.

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Canada

Inclusive �Housing �Initiative �for the

Central Ohio Region

USA

Mexico

Central America

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Cincinnati

Cleveland

Toledo

Lake Erie

  • 10 county, 4.4K Sq.Mi. MSA
  • Population: 2.1 MM
  • Columbus = State Capital
  • 130K college students
  • Mix of employers
  • MPO-led Regional Housing Strategy
  • Lack of helpful state-wide regulations

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Central Ohio Region

Columbus

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The Context:�The only growing region in Ohio � �

  • 6th-highest % increase in net move-ins nationally, March 2020 – March 2021
  • MPO predicts 1 MM increase in population 2020 – 2050
  • Population growing faster than US average = domestic & international in-migration

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The Context:�Growth is not the same as prosperity�

  • Extreme geographic economic segregation
  • Low wage warehousing & distribution jobs
  • Many jobs not accessible by transit
    • Highway focused transportation investments
    • Under-resourced transit system
  • 30% of people in the central county live below 200% of the federal poverty level

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Source: The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility. Raj Chetty, et al Harvard University, US Census Bureau

Geographic economic disparity

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The Context:�Housing production < Demand� �

  • Annual housing production 40% below demand
  • 300K new housing units needed by 2030
  • Lost 20K NOAH units 2017-2019
  • Mismatch of housing product to need/size

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Over the next year

  • Expand leaders’ understanding of the need for housing choices & mixed income communities
  • Increase understanding of the roadblocks
  • Create an expanded list of allies;
  • Identify and build support for a list of targeted “next steps” that can be undertaken locally.

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1.

Introductions

to funders,

and recommendations

on a funding strategy

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2.

How do we tell our story?

(examples, introductions)

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3.

Companies supportive of local housing strategies

(examples, models, introductions)

4.

Permanent affordable housing for 60% AMI and below

(examples, models, introductions)

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ASKS:

5.

True mixed-income multi-family community – keeping balance permanently (models, introductions)

6.

Building

effective coalitions (models,

introductions)

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Inclusive �Housing �Initiative �for the Central Ohio Region

Thank You!