Editing Columbus, Ohio (section)

===Social services and homelessness===
{{main|Social services and homelessness in Columbus, Ohio}}
Columbus has a history of governmental and nonprofit support for low-income residents and the homeless. Nevertheless, the homelessness rate has steadily risen since at least 2007.<ref>{{cite web |author=Bill Bush |url=https://www.dispatch.com/news/20181217/central-ohios-homeless-rate-rising-despite-low-unemployment-rate |title=Central Ohio's homeless rate rising despite low unemployment rate - News - The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, OH |publisher=Dispatch.com |date= |accessdate=February 25, 2021 |archive-date=November 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102232231/https://www.dispatch.com/news/20181217/central-ohios-homeless-rate-rising-despite-low-unemployment-rate |url-status=dead }}</ref> Poverty and differences in quality of life have grown, as well; Columbus was noted as the second-most economically segregated large metropolitan area in 2015, in a study by the University of Toronto.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Gabe |title=Same City, Different Worlds |website=WOSU |publisher=PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/chasing-the-dream/stories/city-different-worlds/ |access-date=February 25, 2021 |date=November 6, 2017 |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125214259/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/chasing-the-dream/stories/city-different-worlds/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Chris Gaitten |url=https://www.columbusmonthly.com/lifestyle/20191231/defining-decade-segregated-city |title=The Defining Decade: The Segregated City - Lifestyle - Columbus Monthly - Columbus, OH |publisher=Columbus Monthly |date= |accessdate=February 25, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101141231/https://www.columbusmonthly.com/lifestyle/20191231/defining-decade-segregated-city |url-status=dead }}</ref> It also ranked 45th of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in terms of [[social mobility]], according to a 2015 Harvard University study.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tcf.org/content/report/hearing-from-low-wage-working-mothers-how-a-housing-program-in-ohio-connects-children-to-better-schools/?agreed=1|title=Hearing from Low-Wage Working Mothers: How a Housing Program in Ohio Connects Children to Better Schools|date=August 4, 2020|access-date=October 30, 2020|archive-date=November 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103192428/https://tcf.org/content/report/hearing-from-low-wage-working-mothers-how-a-housing-program-in-ohio-connects-children-to-better-schools/?agreed=1|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{See also|Homelessness in Ohio}}