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Committee hears 10-year report and data dashboard aimed at closing Cincinnati’s wealth gap
Summary
Researchers led by Dr. Wendy Ellis presented a decade of community-driven research and an interactive “opportunity dashboard” to the Public Safety and Governance Committee, recommending neighborhood hubs, financial-stability measures and data-driven accountability to reduce intergenerational poverty in Avondale, Riverside and other neighborhoods.
The Public Safety and Governance Committee convened a presentation from Dr. Wendy Ellis and her team on “creating opportunity and closing Cincinnati’s wealth gap,” outlining neighborhood-focused strategies, program recommendations and a data dashboard to model and measure policy impacts.
The presentation, delivered to Chair Scotty Johnson and council members, said the report was grounded in 10 years of community engagement in Avondale and Riverside and proposes place-based “hubs,” targeted financial-stability programs and measures to track cumulative social and economic returns on investment. "Economic stability is a crime prevention and public safety issue," Dr. Wendy Ellis said during the meeting.
Why it matters: presenters and council members framed the work as linking economic opportunity to public safety, education and health. The team argued that combining investments — for example, basic income or medical-debt relief along with child- and household-level…
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