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When a Northeast Ohio family received the keys to their first home Wednesday, they also unlocked what some hope is the future of affordable, sustainable housing.

Home builders in Stark County are dealing with soaring prices as the region's new housing market booms.

JACKSON TWP. – Less than two years after Henry Timken received a patent for the tapered roller bearing, his sons began searching for a location to build a factory. Gordon Mather, a salesman with Cleveland Axle Co. and a friend of H.H. Timken, invited the Timkens to Canton in 1901. Brothers H.H. and W.R. Timken liked what they saw in the city. They talked with Board of Trade leaders, and by the end of the year Timken Roller Bearing Axle Co. called Stark County home. The decision 120 years ago to build Timken's bearing factory on Dueber Avenue SW in Canton had a profound impact on the com...

Too many children and families in our community are living in a cycle of poverty, a heartbreaking reality that was underscored in the recent Repository article "Child poverty in Stark County, Canton at crisis level." Though the facts and statistics of the article are daunting, we hold tightly to hope for our community. At Habitat for Humanity East Central Ohio, we have seen the burden families carry when the ends never seem to meet. We have seen poverty steal childhood from children who do not deserve to grow up so quickly. We have also seen that a good home, an affordable home, helps our ne...