CONVERGENCE℠ Columbus is a cross-sector partnership and multi-year initiative to increase Black and minority homeownership in Columbus, Ohio. It brings together leaders from across our community to solve big challenges. Use the links below to view our coalition members and the resources they are already offering to expand and sustain homeownership in our community.

Bloom is CONVERGENCE Columbus’ public facing website that celebrates, supports, and bring transparency and guidance to every step of the homeownership journey for Columbus’ Black and minority communities. Explore Bloom and learn more about how this online resource serves the next generation of homeowners.

If you are ready to join CONVERGENCE Columbus, or have an idea to close the homeownership gap, email our Director of CONVERGENCE Columbus, Anna Teye-Kasongo.

CONVERGENCE Columbus began with a community research project to understand the major barriers to expanding Black and minority homeownership in our community. That work identified four key factors, which allowed the CONVERGENCE Columbus coalition members to organize themselves into five workgroups to advance impactful and sustainable solutions.

The coalition’s work to increase homeownership and the wealth-building opportunities that come with it is just beginning. Watch this space for more information on all the intiatives and resources that will come. Here are the latest CONVERGENCE Columbus updates:

CONVERGENCE Columbus is housed at the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio and was originally launched by the Mortgage Bankers Association, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency, and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. We express our deepest thanks to Huntington National Bank and Fifth-Third Bank for their support of this initiative.

CONVERGENCE is a trademark of the Mortgage Bankers Association. To learn more about the national CONVERGENCE movement, visit the Mortgage Bankers Association website.