OCDCA would like to welcome our newest members Linchpin Consultants LLC in Lima and The Numbered in Lancaster. Welcome!

This forum will focus on: benefits and differences of both Commercial and Residential PACE; results of a ProPublica study of 2,500 Residential PACE borrowers in Missouri; and key weaknesses of the program being proposed for Ohio. Join Organize Ohio on 9/2.

The 2021 Heritage Ohio Annual Conference is in historic downtown Springfield on October 18-20, 2021. The Heritage Ohio Annual Conference is the premiere statewide conference for historic preservation and downtown revitalization in Ohio. Learn more.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted recently announced the launch of four grant programs to help small and medium-sized businesses recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The programs will be administered by the Ohio Department of Development. Program guidelines, terms and conditions, and required documentation for all four programs are available at BusinessHelp.Ohio.Gov. Applications opened Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Funding is limited and interested parties should apply ASAP. For more information about each grant opportunity, click here.

To ensure Ohioans can remain in their homes, the Ohio Department of Development continues to have funding available to help low-income residents with their rent, mortgage, and utility bills through Emergency Rental Assistance (also called the Ohio Home Relief program). To access this funding, grantees should collaborate with their local Community Action Agency. To find your local Community Action Agency and additional information on Emergency Rental Assistance, visit InvestingInOhiosFuture.ohio.gov.

The Resident Opportunity & Self-Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) grant program is designed to assist residents of Public and Indian Housing make progress towards economic and housing self-sufficiency by removing the educational, professional and health barriers they face. Deadline is September 10.

The Foundation offers grant awards up to $5,000 to organizations in the U.S. that are using the power of volunteers to improve the community. Grants are given in the form of The Home Depot gift cards for the purchase of tools, materials or services and are required to be completed within six months. Deadline is rolling until 12/31.

Northwest Neighborhoods CDC, Cleveland, is seeking a Part-Time Tax Site Coordinator. 

County Corp, Dayton, is seeking a Manager of Accounting.

Enterprise, Cleveland, is seeking a Vice President, Market Leader (Ohio).

Cincinnati Development Fund is seeking a Construction Manager/Lending Officer.

Ohio Development Services Agency, Columbus, is seeking a Technical Assistance Manager.

There are two AmeriCorps VISTA Leader positions in our office which still need to be filled. VISTA Leaders are essential to the function of the OCDCA VISTA program. Learn more.

View more employment opportunities on our website. OCDCA members and our funders with employment opportunities may send their notices for free posting to Lisa Much. There is a small fee for non-members to post jobs.

OHFA has posted a full first draft of the 2022-2023 Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP). The full draft incorporates feedback received since the partial first draft was released on June 24th. Comments on the second draft will be accepted through September 2, 2020. Because of the limited time frame between this second draft and the presentation of the final QAP to the OHFA Multifamily Committee on September 8, OHFA is encouraging stakeholders to limit comments to those changes made in the full draft. Stakeholders should not resubmit feedback letters that have been provided to OHFA prior to the release of the full draft. OHFA will accept comments on this partial draft through September 2nd. Comments must be sent to QAP@ohiohome.org.

From Enterprise Community Partners: On August 24, the House voted along party lines to approve a ten-year, $3.5 trillion budget resolution. The resolution, which passed the Senate earlier this month, sets the stage for Congress to pursue a parliamentary procedure known as reconciliation, which allows the Senate to pass a measure on a simple majority vote, rather than the typical 60 votes. The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and the House Committee on Financial Services received topline spending figures of $332 and $339 billion, respectively. The difference in levels accounts for variance in areas of jurisdiction. Some of the tax credit

programs they will potentially consider include the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) and Neighborhood Homes Investment Act (NHIA), which are a couple programs prioritized in Chairman Wyden’s recently announced DASH Act, detailed in the proceeding article. It is expected that Congress will take into consideration the priorities the Biden Administration, which were laid out in their Build Back Better Agenda and the Treasury’s Green Book. House leadership included in their budget resolution a non-binding commitment to vote on the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in the House by September 27, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi previously said would not be voted on until the Senate passed the reconciliation package with Democrats’ additional infrastructure priorities.

From COHHIO: Between now and Sept. 15, the Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees are figuring out how to divvy up nearly $340 billion for housing programs. COHHIO is working with advocates from around the country through the hoUSed campaign to prioritize investments that would help bridge the gap between low wages and high rents, and increase the supply of affordable rental units.

With Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) chairing the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees federal housing programs, Ohio advocates can have a real influence on the process. Here are two ways you can help us prioritize the people who need help the most - extremely low-income renters who struggled every day to maintain stable housing even before the pandemic.

Feel free to contact COHHIO Advocacy Director Gina Wilt if you have any questions. And please let her know if you have any productive interactions with Sen. Brown or any other members of Congress.

From NLIHC: The Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, ruled (6-3) on August 26 to end the temporary stay on a lower court ruling seeking to overturn the federal eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on August 3. In doing so, the Supreme Court’s ruling invalidates the federal eviction moratorium, eliminating vital eviction protections that have kept millions of households stably housed. The Supreme Court decision undermines historic efforts by Congress and the White House to ensure housing stability during the pandemic. State and local governments are working to improve programs to distribute emergency rental assistance (ERA) to those in need, but they need more time; the Supreme Court’s decision will lead to many renters, predominantly people of color, losing their homes before the assistance can reach them. Read more.

From NLIHC: Eviction Lab released “Preliminary Analysis: 11 months of the CDC Moratorium,” an evaluation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium as it existed between September 4, 2020 and July 31, 2021. Using data from Eviction Lab’s Eviction Tracking System (ETS), researchers estimated that the CDC eviction moratorium alone prevented at least 1.55 million eviction filings across the country, and that state and local eviction protections prevented an additional 900,000 eviction filings throughout the country. Eviction Lab researchers observed that fewer than half as many eviction cases as normal were filed in the jurisdictions they monitored; in some jurisdictions with additional eviction moratoriums the decrease in filings was even more significant. Read more.