CINCINNATI — The City of Cincinnati awarded $1 million to an affordable housing provider with a history of violations and tenant complaints about rats, raw sewage, mold, no hot water and inoperable stoves.

City Manager Sheryl Long announced the award to Preservation of Affordable Housing, or POAH, in a Sept. 16 memo, to help restore 81 units at Terri Manor in Lower Price Hill, which hasn’t had a major renovation in 25 years.

This came a week after Long sympathized with the living conditions of many POAH tenants, in a statement to the WCPO 9 I-Team.

Lot Tan Apparent raw sewage outside a POAH multi-family building in the West End. A neighbor said she has complained to the city and the nonprofit for more than a year.

“The problems that POAH residents are describing are dire. Many of the

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