Toward Collective Redevelopment

Jasmine Metcalf | Griffin Ritze

Over-the-Rhine has been transformed since 2001 by economic development directed toward the middle class and the wealthy.

Confronted with a national recession, a countywide affordable housing crisis and displacement spurred by redevelopment in the West End, our city must decide whether Over-the-Rhine should be an exclusive neighborhood for the few or an equitable and desirable place that is open to all.