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Create housing environment in Logan County that promotes good health for all.

Story Behind the Curve

Partners

  • Residential Administrators

  • First Lutheran Church - Bellefontaine

  • Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services Board for Logan and Champaign Counties

  • TCN

  • Community Health and Wellness Partners 

  • Logan County Health District

  • Mary Rutan Hospital Staff

  • Bridges To Community Action

  • United Way of Logan County

  • Recovery Zone

  • Metropolitan Housing Authority

  • Campbell Landing Housing Authority

  • Logan County Land Bank 

  • Other community housing authorities/agencies

What Works

Strategy

For 2020-22, the Housing Coalition has developed an Implementation Plan that includes a number of effective strategies designed to increase the availability of safe and affordable housing options. These strategies include rental assistance programs and increased Investment in rental housing assistance for low-income residents, affordable housing development and preservation, incentives for housing developers, neighborhood improvement, development and expand land banking programs, prioritizing Community Block Grant, lead paint education, and abatement. 

Action Plan

  • Enhance skills
  • Build skills

What We Do

Who We Serve

How We Impact

Why Is This Important?

In Logan County, the need for more safe and affordable housing options is evident by the fact that nearly a quarter (23.7%) of the respondents to the CHA survey stated housing and homelessness was a high need for them. In addition, 41.8% of respondents indicated housing was a challenge. This was the second most listed challenge behind mental health and addiction. Respondents who reported not having sufficient funds for housing indicated that the lack of affordable housing in Logan County as one of the most common reasons given. Five (5) percent of the respondents said they had been homeless at least once in the past six (6) months. In the last quarter of 2019, the greatest needs recorded by the County’s 211 service were for emergency shelter and assistance with paying electric bills and rent. Data from Mary Rutan Hospital showed that treatment for asthma increased in 2019, as did treatment for lead poisoning, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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