After weeks of delays, Cincinnati Public Schools' safe sleep lot for homeless students opened Thursday, April 30. A first-of-its-kind effort in the state known to the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, the project offers 12 parking spaces at William Howard Taft Elementary School to families living out of their vehicles. The initiative is meant to aid a population of homeless students at CPS that has nearly doubled since 2015. Originally slated for a March opening, CPS officially welcomed families experiencing homelessness to the lot with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday at 11 a.m. followed by tours of the site. It will operate through the summer, slated to close Nov. 30, the district previously said, when temperatures drop. At that time, those residing in the lot will be offered sleeping space at a church that the district said has asked to go unnamed. The delayed opening allowed Project Connect, CPS's social services hub that's spearheading the initiative, to build o...