The city of Akron, in partnership with GOPC and the Reinvestment Fund, has released the Akron Housing Action Plan and Market Value Analysis.  The Action Plan and Market Value Analysis will help city officials and other leaders in Akron spur new housing development, keep long-time residents in their homes, and improve the quality of existing homes for all Akron residents.

Community leaders in Portsmouth have recently released the Portsmouth Housing Action Plan, which focuses on strategies to increase housing options in the city. This Plan is a second phase of work by the Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC), which completed a housing market analysis for Portsmouth in 2021.

The need to improve outcomes is acute in legacy cities, where inequities tend to be prevalent and persistent. In partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, GOPC has published “Building Equity: Equitable Real Estate Development Strategies for Weak Markets.”

Since 2012, the Central Ohio Community Improvement Corporation, better known as COCIC, has worked tirelessly to create stable homes, reclaim commercial property, and restart real estate markets in Franklin County through direct programming and strategic partnerships.

Leaders in the City of Portsmouth identified housing as an important component of city’s revitalization journey, launching a comprehensive housing analysis as a first step to understand housing conditions across the city. Various community partners engaged the Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC) to analyze market rate and affordable housing conditions within the municipality.

GOPC’s new working paper, Local Interventions for Eviction Prevention, profiles initiatives from around Ohio to provide ideas and templates for communities that need housing stabilization programming.

As a first step to improving housing options, The Champaign Economic Partnership commissioned the GOPC to analyze the market rate and affordable housing markets in Champaign County and its four largest communities: the City of Urbana and the Villages of Mechanicsburg, North Lewisburg, and St. Paris.

In service of celebrating and memorializing the accomplishments of the NeighborWorks collaborative of Ohio, Economic Impact of the NeighborWorks Collaborative of Ohio presents the economic and community impact of the Collaborative’s outputs from 2014 to 2018.

Housing in the Champion City: Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis for Springfield, Ohio presents an in-depth analysis of the market-rate and affordable housing markets in Springfield, and recommends policies and strategies that can strengthen the City’s housing market.

In the past five years, the Columbus Land Redevelopment Office and Central Ohio Community improvement Corporation (COCIC) have generated $180 million in economic impact in Columbus and Franklin County communities.  The land banks work together to help create stronger, safer neighborhoods by obtaining and managing blighted properties and creating redevelopment opportunities.