The $3.8 million acquisition is one of the largest real estate transactions in College Hill in at least the last three decades. It’s also the biggest and most consequential purchase in the nonprofit’s 49-year history.
Grants went to about two dozen nonprofits spread across Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Eastern Indiana.
“COVID should have made us all housing advocates, because so many things that we were called upon to do, it was with the assumption that housing was in place … And we quickly learned that that was not the case for everyone.”
The most basic elements of any story are a beginning, a middle and an end. The more nuanced elements include an introduction, interesting characters, conflict, high stakes, transformation and resolution. By any of these measures, the story of Cincy Stories remains incomplete. The end, or resolution, is nowhere in sight. But the power of a story, in the telling and the hearing, has been plain to see.
