Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman is chair of City Council's new Affordable Housing Subcommittee. "I think it's important that if we're using numbers, we at least know that we're using 2010 numbers in 2021," Smitherman said in late March. "And we don't know; those numbers could be bigger, those numbers could be smaller." Michael Jones, a professor of economics at the University of Cincinnati, thinks the gap is quite a bit smaller. He researches labor and public economics, and says he got interested in housing after reading a WVXU article about council members wanting more recent data. He decided to take a look for himself, and presented his findings to the subcommittee in mid-April. His analysis is based on a report published in March from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.