Restoring Prosperity
The Greater Ohio Policy Center Blog
Last month, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau within the U.S. Department of the Treasury, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), proposed rules that would considerably weaken the regulations governing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
Greater Ohio Policy Center is once again being recognized for our work, most recently being cited by the Columbus Dispatch’s editorial board for our work providing policy solutions to strengthen Ohio’s water and sewer infrastructure.
The Neighborhood Design Center hosted the Columbus Housing Dialogue on Tuesday, January 21 to discuss research completed by the Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC) into tax stabilization strategies at the local and state level. Maria Walliser-Wejebe, Research Associate and Jason Warner, Manager of Government Affairs, discussed strategies used in other communities that can reduce the burden of property taxes on long-time or select demographic groups.
You may have heard the term “redlining,” a practice started in the 1930’s to describe the discriminatory act of marking off neighborhoods, using a red marker or pen on a map, where banks would deliberately avoid lending based on race, ethnicity, or religion. The results are unfortunately well known and are still with us today.
This piece is part of a series highlighting transit systems across Ohio who are investing in the future. These projects were made possible through the record-setting annual investments by the state in public transit: $70 million per year over a two-year period.
See the other blogs in this series here.
The Dispatch recognized GOPC for working to rebuild and rejuvenate Ohio’s “legacy cities” that have been hit hard by societal changes. “Cities like Sandusky and Marion and Hamilton don’t carry as great a burden as Portsmouth’s, but they too have struggled with the loss of manufacturing jobs and population. That makes the progress shown in the Greater Ohio Policy Center’s updated report especially encouraging.”
