Start talking about housing in Cincinnati – particularly affordable housing – and eventually, someone is going to say, “You should talk to Mary.” These are the stories of those experiencing and fighting housing insecurity here in Cincinnati.
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“You meet people where they are.” These are the stories of those experiencing and fighting housing insecurity here in Cincinnati.
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“By the time you start saying, ‘Oh! We have to do something affordable!’ it’s just too late.” These are the stories of those experiencing and fighting housing insecurity here in Cincinnati.
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The Cincinnati Public Schools board member has spent the last two decades working to help kids and families living in poverty and facing housing insecurity in the city – as a volunteer and educator, as the executive director of UpSpring, and most recently, as the partnership and policy manager for Cradle Cincinnati. These are the stories of those experiencing and fighting housing insecurity here in Cincinnati.
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What if the vacant houses dotting Hamilton County neighborhoods were transformed into affordable housing? Families would have homes that didn’t eat up a majority of their income. Neighborhoods wouldn’t have empty, deteriorating houses. Neighbors would fill in the spaces on the block that were once dark windows and boarded up doors.
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Leslie Stevenson made history last year when she became the first African American to run for City Council in Norwood. And in November, Norwood voters made history when they elected her, the first African American Council member in the city’s 129-year history.
Women of Cincy recently had a chance to talk with Stevenson about Norwood’s past and present, and how her work in the nonprofit sector led her to public service.
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Five years ago, Mary Ellen Mitchell co-founded Lydia's House with her friend Meridith Owensby and husband, Ben Eilerman. Mitchell was expecting her second child and Eilerman, an architect, had a full-time job. Both Mitchell and Owensby had left their positions with local nonprofits. It wasn't, Mitchell acknowledges, an ideal time to be starting a nonprofit organization.
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Abigail Murrish is Hoosier turned Ohioan, a born and bred Midwesterner. A year ago, she started a podcast, “Our Midwestern Life,” to tell the stories and share the wisdom of all the people around her. Women of Cincy sat down with Murrish to talk about the podcast, life in Cincinnati, and the differences between the national idea of the Midwest and real life here in the center of the United States.
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In less than three years, Calcagno Cullen has transformed an old Camp Washington building into an art gallery and a thriving, vibrant corner of the neighborhood.
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Tracy Brumfield has stumbled and fallen, but her life is on the rise.
Having landed a People’s Liberty Haile Fellowship, the 50-year-old former heroin addict is creating a monthly newspaper for Cincinnati’s incarcerated population. Called RISE, the newspaper is intended to be a resource and inspiration to people wanting to pick themselves up out of addiction and incarceration.
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All of us can see problems in our neighborhoods. Many of us will talk about those problems. But few of us throw our lives toward fixing them as Libby Hunter did when she co-founded WordPlay Cincy, a Northside-based nonprofit organization that fights poverty through creativity and communication.
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