Learn how people experiencing addiction are criminalized, penalized, and dehumanized within social services, and what you can do to create a healthier environment for the people you serve.

The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) is seeking applicants for its full-time Street Outreach Director position. NEOCH is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to eliminate the root causes of homelessness while loving our diverse community through organizing, advocacy, education, and street outreach. The Street Outreach Director will oversee the daily operations of the Cleveland Outreach Collaborative, including NEOCH street outreach staff and staff from partnering organizations that work collectively to support Cleveland’s unsheltered population.

The Neighborhood Outreach Worker is a shared position between Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) and Ohio City Improvement Corporation (OCIC), Ohio City’s Special Improvement District. This is a new role created to provide services throughout the Ohio City neighborhood, including building relationships with individuals experiencing homelessness, providing basic need items, and encouraging individuals to enroll in services for housing, victim support, and healthcare.

Send a letter via Action Network now! With the CDC eviction moratorium coming to an end, renters in Cleveland are still left vulnerable, with many waiting on emergency rental assistance to come through. Having a Pay to Stay ordinance on the books would mean renters behind on their rent are granted the right to stay in their homes if they come up with the rent and late fees before the eviction is granted by the court.

Over the last several weeks, NEOCH has been made aware of concerning actions taken by the City of Independence in response to a hotel on Rockside Road being used and serviced 24/7 by Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry to house men experiencing homelessness.

NEOCH presents information on how homelessness is perpetuated through systemic barriers to housing. NEOCH seeks to dispel homelessness myths, and shift the narrative from individual responsibility, to systemic accountability. Participants will hear from housing experts on what they can do to create a world where everyone has a safe place to call home.

Thousands of people experience homelessness in Cleveland and Akron every year. But what if these people were given money? Money that they could use to dig their way out of poverty and turn a new leaf?

Willoughby resident Sandy Naffah lost both of her jobs -- at a school and a beauty salon -- when the pandemic-related shutdowns went into effect last year. Not long after, she fell behind on rent.

There was one bright spot in the darkness of the coronavirus pandemic in Cleveland last year: Fewer people were homeless and living on the streets.

Slavic Village residents face mounds of paperwork and uncooperative landlords as they try to stave off eviction. Housing advocates are trying to keep them from slipping through the cracks.

Under Ohio law, renters can be a day late on rent and still get evicted. Under a ‘Pay to Stay’ ordinance, a landlord may not proceed with the eviction for nonpayment of rent if that tenant presents the full rent due plus late fees by the time of their hearing.

Cleveland’s moratorium on shut-offs for water and electric is ending, with only one month left until federal aid expires. Where does that leave families with utility bills mounting?

Anna Powaski and Chad Falatic walk down the cracked sidewalk of a street in the Kinsman neighborhood, toward a small rental home with a sagging porch and a U-Haul moving truck in the driveway. They strike up a conversation with two men on the porch. Falatic and Powaski – both wearing masks ­– explain they’re with the Cleveland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and the reason why they’re there: The landlord has filed an eviction order.

The Neighborhood Outreach Worker is a shared position between Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) and Ohio City Improvement Corporation (OCIC), Ohio City’s Special Improvement District. This is a new role created to provide services throughout the Ohio City neighborhood, including building relationships with individuals experiencing homelessness, providing basic need items, and encouraging individuals to enroll in services for housing, victim support, and healthcare.

“The last two people who died in jail had experienced homelessness and these deaths at the county jail cannot become routine.” said Chris Knestrick from the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless. “Like the lives lost through police murder, mass shootings, and the covid pandemic, these are not isolated instances. They are symptoms of the deep systemic rot that places property and profit above human life and human dignity.”