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Rural homelessness has seen an increase in the past year. Housing advocates point to fewer resources built for small towns.

Downtown Akron Partnership's Start Downtown program is open for its latest round of applications. The program helps entrepreneurs get started in a downtown storefront.

New maps for state House and Senate districts have once again been ruled unconstitutionally gerrymandered by the Ohio Supreme Court; County Executive Armond Budish and county council members have outlined plans for spending $27 million in federal stimulus funds; Summit County’s program that provides financial help for residents having trouble paying their rent or utility bills due to the pandemic is getting a boost; and more stories.

New "pay-to-stay" and "source-of-income protections" laws passed this week give renters some peace of mind concerning discriminatory housing practices.

Children’s Hospital on Tuesday announced that vaccination clinics for kids 12 and up are open at its Akron and Boardman campuses; Governor Mike DeWine has signed into law a $465 million bill meant to help lower-income Ohioans pay for rent and mortgages; a new study at the Cleveland Clinic shows that the new technology behind the coronavirus vaccines is working well; and more stories.

Median gross rent in Akron is higher than every city in Ohio except for Columbus.

Households nationwide may be as much $40 billion behind in utility bills and $32 billion in rental arrears, driven in large part by income loss caused from COVID-19.

Help covering rent and mortgage payments is coming to small businesses in Mentor under a new grant program designed to help reopen the local economy. The Mentor Small Business Restart Program is focusing on small, local storefronts that had no opportunity to collect revenue during the shutdown, said Mentor’s Director of Economic Development and International Trade Kevin Malecek.