Restoring Prosperity
The Greater Ohio Policy Center Blog
This week GOPC hosted the first webinar in our series “Keeping People in Their Homes” a series exploring strategies for promoting neighborhood stability in the time of COVID. Each webinar in the series addresses themes of neighborhood stability by focusing on strategies well-suited to a variety of actors, including mission-driven developers, local governments and non-profit community advocates.
In 2018, Hopewell adopted a Comprehensive Plan with miles of new biking and walking facilities. The plan includes a section calling out the benefits and importance of a complete, multi-modal transportation network.
Last week, GOPC Executive Director Alison Goebel and former Cleveland Heights City Manager Tanisha Briley had an op-ed published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer advocating for the incoming Biden Administration to push for a new federal/local partnership program designed to assist America’s economically challenged places.
The Covid-19 crisis removed an already thin veil obscuring the slim line between housing security and insecurity for many Americans. This dynamic is particularly true for many extremely cost-burdened residents of America’s legacy cities. Rising unemployment, low-wage jobs, and limited new employment opportunities mean that residents who were formerly “just getting by” are now at risk of losing their housing.
