Group home opens to help fill mental health housing gap

CINCINNATI — In Ohio, thousands of people living with mental illness are struggling to find stable housing, according to data from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The group reports that one in five Ohioans experiencing homelessness also lives with a serious mental illness.

For Jeno Shanklin, the crisis is personal — and the solution; he hopes starts with the home he recently bought.

Walking through the doorway of a Cincinnati house, Shanklin pauses at the decoration on the wall and the furniture arranged just as it was years ago…

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