Governor Mike DeWine just announced a new $100 million program to help rural communities build the infrastructure needed for new single-family homes. Roads. Water lines. Sewer systems. Utilities. Everything developers need to build more houses. Sounds great until you ask a simple question: Who are these homes actually for? Because you can't solve a housing crisis by building houses people can't afford. You can't solve a wealth gap by helping developers while ignoring the families struggling to become homeowners. And you can't keep announcing housing programs while thousands of working Ohioans watch the dream of homeownership move further out of reach every year. The state says Ohio needs more housing because more jobs are coming. Fair enough. But if the jobs are coming, why aren't we talking about the people already here? The teacher. The bus driver. The healthcare worker. The warehouse employee. The retiree on a fixed income. The young family trying to buy their first home. The Black family that has spent generations renting while watching wealth pass them by. Ohio is willing to spend $100 million helping communities prepare land for development. How much is being spent helping families prepare to OWN what gets built? How many Black families are expected to purchase these homes? How many first-time homebuyers will benefit? How many homes will end up owned by investors, corporations, and landlords? How many families will build generational wealth from this program? Nobody seems interested in answering those questions. Instead, we're told to celebrate another housing announcement. But housing is not the goal. Ownership is the goal. Wealth is the goal. Stability is the goal. Generational opportunity is the goal. Because if taxpayers help fund the infrastructure, taxpayers deserve to know who gets the homes. Who builds the wealth. And who gets left behind. The Black Wall isn't interested in press releases. We're interested in receipts. Black Wall™ | Black Receipts™ | City Ledger™ | The Village™ WE FIND THE PATTERNS.