The chair of the Ohio Senate’s housing committee was in Steubenville Monday to urge council to get ahead of its housing crisis.

Sen. Michelle Reynolds, R-Canal Winchester, said Urban Mission closing its emergency shelters was a blow to the community.

“(It closed) because they tried, they’ve done everything they can to try to house the homeless population here. However, due to financial constraints and all kind of other barriers, they’re just not able to do so,” she said. “But at the end of the day, that still means you have a problem, you have an issue here.”

But Reynolds, a Smithfield native, also pointed out the entire state is in a housing crisis–in some areas it’s because an expanding job market has attracted so many workers the housing supply can’t keep up; other communities are lo

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