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

Money from rail selloff could help solve Ohio city’s most pressing problems but political mistrust dictates how profits can be used

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.”