Affordable Housing

Eviction is the leading cause of homelessness, creating trauma and family instability and often disqualifying a family from obtaining housing in the future. Eviction isn’t just an upheaval—and a potential crisis—for the displaced family but also an incredible cost burden for property owners. The cost to a property owner to…

Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) has a 20-year history of impact investing with our visionary donors to generate social change. This innovative approach enables investments with a financial return and social return to tackle large-scale issues that affect the wellbeing of the entire region. One of those critical issues with deep…

Together, we can solve our region’s affordable housing crisis. We previously shared with you LISC’s Housing Our Future report, the culmination of a year-long collaboration between public, private and nonprofit leaders, for which Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) was a partner, convener and funder. It outlines strategies to help everyone in Cincinnati…

Our region needs 40,000 more affordable housing units. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues its devastating impact on the economy, resulting in job losses and evictions, the crisis will only accelerate. Further, the pandemic and staggering affordable housing gap disproportionately affect the Black community; which already faces the highest unemployment rates…