A growing number of families in Greater Cincinnati's suburbs find themselves in need of help with rent and mortgages. Suburbs in the nation's largest metropolitan areas saw the number of residents living below the poverty line grow by 57% between 2000 and 2015, according to research that UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation research director Elizabeth Kneebone conducted for the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. Suburbs accounted for nearly half of the nation's total increase in the poor population during that time, she found. Between 2000 and 2019, the population of people living below the federal poverty line decreased by 3% within the city of Cincinnati, according to Kneebone.