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The nonprofit Community Shelter Board established the Scioto Peninsula Relocation Task Force to find stable housing and support services for these displaced residents. [ 4 ] Although national homeless rates for families declined by about 32 percent in the 2010s, Columbus experienced an increase of 20 percent.
In 2013, the organization expanded its transitional living program with the opening of Hope House, a new housing unit for homeless single mothers and their children. In the Faith House and Hope House programs, vulnerable young families receive resources and support to help them transition to financial independence and self-sufficiency in two years.
An advocate for the homeless told Columbus City Council it should pause the city's clearing of a South Side homeless camp on private property.
The cost of transitional housing is the same or less expensive than emergency shelters. But, due to the on site services, transitional tends to be more expensive than permanent supportive housing. [1] In the USA, federal funding for transitional housing programs was originally allocated in the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986. [2]
Micheal Woods, executive director of Cleveland County Rescue Mission, shows the shelter options at the missions Julius Street location. Transitional and emergency housing are available for men.
The Columbus City Council approved a housing fund Monday to ease the resettlement process of about 350 Afghan evacuees coming to Columbus.
The quality of housing has also been declining: 50% of houses in Ohio were built before 1965, and 30% of available housing was built before 1940. In 2015, an estimated 4% of Ohioans lived in a house that was deemed structurally inadequate, representing over 200,000 housing units. [8]
Columbus City Council will vote Monday to approve giving $2 million to extend a housing program for Columbus State Community College students.
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