Cincinnati has a $1.9bn infrastructure fund – why can’t it spend it to fix its housing crisis?

Houses in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of downtown Cincinnati. Photograph: Pgiam/Getty Images

Cincinnati, Ohio’s City of Seven Hills, has been drawing residents in from its suburbs – and, increasingly, other large cities – for years now. The only flat thing in sight is the housing supply.

“Our city’s growing,” Aftab Pureval, Cincinnati’s mayor, said in an interview. “For the first time in a generation, our population is growing.”