When it comes to racial parity, Columbus lags behind other cities — by hundreds of years. A study shows that it will take Black Columbus residents 700 years to get opportunities to improve their ...

When it comes to racial parity, Columbus lags behind other cities — by hundreds of years. A study shows that it will take Black Columbus residents 700 years to get opportunities to improve their ...

The Columbus area is not unique —rather the opposite. Across the United States, fewer than 1 in 1,000 Black Americans live in a county where their outcomes are least 90 percent of white outcomes.

It doesn't help that Columbus' zoning code hasn't been updated since the 1950s, said Anna Teye-Kasongo, director of community partnerships at the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio (AHACO).