Affordable Housing
Buckeye Community Hope Foundation has fulfilled its affordable housing development mission with the assistance of numerous partners-developers, builders, bankers and financing intermediaries, investors, federal, state and local government agencies and community groups. Critical to our success has been access to the largest federal program for affordable housing, the low-income housing tax credit program.
Building Stronger Communities Through Affordable Housing.
Since our first tax credit project in 1993, Buckeye Community Hope Foundation (BCHF) has been awarded competitive tax credits for 119 rental communities as a developer and/or general partner. BCHF served as general partner and general contractor for three tax-exempt bond/4% credit developments, rehabilitating Section 8 complexes in southwest Ohio.
BCHF has successfully utilized various programs, including HOME, Housing Trust Fund, ARRA (Tax Credit Exchange and Tax Credit Assistance Program), Affordable Housing Program (AHP) through FHLB, and Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funding, with or without tax credits. In our early years, we converted two subsidized rental housing communities into condominiums using the HOPE program, which inspired the inclusion of “Hope” in our name.
Buckeye Community Hope Foundation Receives Achievement in Affordable Housing
Buckeye Community Hope Foundation was named the 2025 recipient of the William J. Graves Award for Housing Excellence by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) and OCCH. The award was presented on November 12, 2025, during the Ohio Housing Conference in Columbus, recognizing our organization’s contributions to developing affordable housing opportunities throughout Ohio, the Appalachian region, and the Midwest.
Development News & Updates
NWC II Apartments: Expanding Access to Affordable, Supportive Housing in Lima
BCHF Awarded at Ohio Housing Conference
Former McKinley Elementary School set to be Demolished
Tour with the Ohio Treasurer of State
BCHF Awarded Low-Income Housing Tax Credits From the Ohio Housing Finance Agency
