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Columbus staff outline CRA expansion, affordability rule changes and program outcomes
Summary
City staff described the Columbus Housing CRA expansion to cover roughly 85% of parcels, changes to affordability requirements made in 2022, a single-family pilot, and program outcomes including monitored units, appraised value of abated properties and $1.1 million in fee-in-lieu receipts.
City of Columbus housing staff briefed the Housing Council on program changes that expanded the geographic reach of the Columbus Housing CRA and revised affordability requirements, and presented year-end 2024 program outcomes showing modest affordable-unit production and cumulative fee-in-lieu receipts.
Jeremy Heater Druitt, development program manager for the residential tax-incentive program, told the council that city legislation in December 2023, which staff said took effect Jan. 10, 2024, dissolved most legacy community-reinvestment-area (CRA) boundaries and replaced them with a single Columbus Housing CRA. He said the expanded CRA now covers roughly 85% of city parcels and retains a three-tier affordability framework based on census-tract designations: market-ready, ready-for-revitalization and ready-for-opportunity. A small number of legacy CRAs and certain economic-development…
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