Who is watching the hen house?
Who is watching the hen house?? Hamilton County & the City of Cincinnati needs to get out of the housing business. No more new applications for Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority, keep what...
View ArticleHUD, CMHA battle getting petty
The HUD and CMHA fight over whether to put public housing in Green Township is getting pretty petty. The gentleman in question no longer works for either office and I saw on television last night where...
View ArticleCMHA deal unethical
The latest deal between HUD and CMHA, which gives preferential treatment to landlords who accept Section 8 vouchers in certain neighborhoods, is unethical in many ways. Both landlords and Realtors must...
View ArticleAdd Section 8 housing to The Banks
Here is one solution to the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority and HUD problem. Since these government organizations have trouble finding “housing units” to fill their needs, why don’t they go...
View ArticleSpread the housing
I read with interest the story “Pressure mounting for CMHA.” I feel that Cincinnati’s surrounding suburbs should share the responsibility for public housing. However, every article I have read seems...
View ArticleCounty needs more public housing
Hamilton County needs more scattered site public housing. The public housing scattered site program has been one small effort to reduce historic segregated housing patterns in our region, the eighth...
View ArticleFaulty CMHA economics
As an owner of rental real estate, what I found incredible about the article on Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority’s failed plan to renovate a Westwood apartment building was its outrageous cost...
View ArticlePublic housing issue is a measure of society
The measure of a city or a nation can be judged by how it treats its young, old and poor. And our anger over public housing is showing how we treat that population. What is the next population will we...
View ArticleCMHA board structure, leadership disconnected
HB 408, which would change the structure of the CMHA board, is a bad idea for several reasons (“Bill would add two seats to housing board” Jan.11). First, it applies only to the Cincinnati Metropolitan...
View ArticlePublic housing stance appreciated
As President of Affordable Housing Advocates (AHA), a diverse group of advocates spanning the grassroots, faith-based, development and planning communities of Greater Cincinnati, I am writing to...
View ArticleCMHA stand another reason to oppose Pillich
The proposed change to the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority will give some balance to the agency, which is really needed (“House panel OKs CMHA bill” March 23). So did Rep. Connie Pillich...
View ArticleHow can CMHA get some ‘skin in the game’?
Someone I know grew up in a Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority property. He said that if a tenant did not take care of their property, pick-up trash in the yard, keep their unit clean, and keep...
View ArticlePortune should take second look at sewers
I was disappointed in Todd Portune’s comment in the article “Sewer rates to rise 5 percent” (Dec. 12). This is nothing new, as MSD’s antiquated combined sewer system in Cincinnati has long (over 20...
View ArticleWhy not build Section 8 at old English Woods site?
One can only wonder why Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority is determined to build Section 8 housing at the busy intersection of North Bend Road and Westwood Northern Boulevard. Barely two miles...
View ArticleWhat is parking deal money doing to enhance West Side?
Money from the parking deal is going to build bike trails in Hyde Park and Oakley. City money is also going to help develop apartments in Columbia Tusculum, yet more CMH developments are being built on...
View ArticleBracing for onslaught of Section 8 housing in Green Township
To my neighbors in Green Township, I would like to give you a preview of what you can soon expect, no matter how they place the CMHA housing in your area. Your property values will plummet –...
View ArticleDiscrimination in public housing
Why is the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority spending over $625,000 for land to build affordable housing when on the same street there is land the government already owns, the old English Woods...
View ArticleKeep an eye on Green Township crime stats
Let Hud and CMHA be put on notice: According to the 2012 Statistics for Crime in the Green Twp area there were” 31,866 calls for service 4,035 Criminal Reports 370 Criminal Damaging/Vandalism 409...
View ArticleBad housing policy, not racism, behind West Side’s resistance
So, even though hundreds of West Siders on a daily basis drive through Westwood and Price Hill and see the ever-increasing number of boarded up buildings and blight due to Cincinnati Metropolitan...
View ArticleNo more low-income housing in Green Township
I am writing this letter concerning the low-income housing project directed at our community. This type of housing is a blue print for increased crime, theft, violence, drug trafficking, and a general...
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