CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County Council, on Tuesday, is expected to approve $5.1 million in loans to help increase the area’s affordable housing supply, specifically for seniors, homeless veterans and adults with disabilities.

The loans are to be spread across nine projects, helping create 557 new housing units and repair and rehabilitate another 147 units, keeping them in the market, Tony Scott, the county’s director of Housing and Community Development previously explained in a presentation to council members.

The loans, which are supported by federal funding, will be forgiven after 20 years if the housing continues to meet affordability requirements, Scott said. He defined affordable as housing priced for households earning no more than 60% of the area median income — meaning rents

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