Ohio Funding for Housing Assistance Amendment (1990)

Ohio Funding for Housing Assistance Amendment
Election date November 6, 1990
Topic Housing
Status Approved
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Ohio Funding for Housing Assistance Amendment was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Ohio on November 6, 1990. It was approved.

A “yes” vote supported allowing the state and political subdivisions to provide funds for housing assistance.

A “no” vote opposed allowing the state and political subdivisions to provide funds for housing assistance.

Election results

Ohio Funding for Housing Assistance Amendment
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		1,705,528	52.92%
No		1,517,466	47.08%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Funding for Housing Assistance Amendment was as follows:

“

To amend Article VIII of the Constitution of Ohio by adopting Section 16 To allow the state and political subdivisions to provide or assist in providing housing and housing assistance by grants, loans, subsidies, guarantees, or other means as determined by the general assembly. The state may provide funding by issuing obligations, including obligations backed by appropriations of state revenues, but the state's full faith and credit shall not be pledged to retire obligations issued for this purpose. Shall this proposed amendment be adopted?

”

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Ohio Constitution

A 60% vote is required during one legislative session for the Ohio State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 60 votes in the Ohio House of Representatives and 20 votes in the Ohio State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

1990 Measures

• 1990 Measures
• Housing on the ballot
• 1990 legislative sessions

Ohio

• Ohio ballot measures
• Ohio ballot measure laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls

External links

• Toledo Blade, "Ballot Language, Explanations, Arguments and Resolutions for Amendments to the Ohio Constitution Proposed by the General Assembly and Ballot Language, Arguments and the Full Text of an Amendment to the Ohio Constitution Proposed by Initiative Petition to be Submitted to the Voters at the General Election, November 6, 1990," October 30, 1990