CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) – When people enter Councilman Mark Jeffreys’ City Hall office, they are faced with a whiteboard that totals up the number of homes Cincinnati has added this year.
For 2025, it stands at 985. The City Council-endorsed goal? That would be 4,000 a year, 40,000 in 10 years to address the city and region’s growing need for housing as rents and home prices continue to rise.
Cincinnati is smoking other cities when it comes to converting aging and underused office space to apartments. But in the heart of the Central Business District, where there are few limits on height for new buildings, no developer has finished a new apartment or condo building since 2021, when the Fourth and Race mid-rise building debuted. There are no new downtown construction multifamily projects currently in the pipeline ready to be built…