COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther will address the residents of Columbus in his state of the city speech Wednesday night. 

He will touch on efforts to reduce crime, build more housing and make infrastructure improvements. 

The state of the city starts at 6 p.m. Watch the live stream below.

This includes money towards affordable housing, a way to track vacant and foreclosed properties, domestic violence resources and targeted approaches to cleaning up high crime streets.

“I really believe this is a decade of action with respect to housing,” Ginther said in an interview with NBC4 ahead of the address. 

Watch our full interview with Mayor Ginther  

Ginther will be announcing a bond measure that will be on the November ballot. If passed, $500 million will go to building more housing and investing in city infrastructure.

“We need 200,000 units in the region of housing over the next 10 years,” Ginther said. “I’ve already committed that Columbus will lead the way and will make sure that 100,000 units are developed and built inside the city of Columbus. We’ve done a great job over the last 10 or 20 years creating jobs. We need to be as good or better at bringing more housing units online and into the marketplace in the next 10 to 20 years.”

Another area of the speech will focus on crime. Last year, homicides dropped by 17%, and Ginther hopes that the trend will continue. One new measure is the clean and safe corridor initiative.

“An unprecedented focus, bringing the full weight of city services to bear from Recreation and Parks to Public Service to Public Utilities, trees, streetscape improvements, all those types of things, but also working with police to get more guns off the street,” Ginther said. 

The first street in this program was Parsons Avenue. The next three corridors this program will focus on are Sullivant Avenue on the Hilltop, Livingston Avenue on the south side and the North High through the Short North.

“This isn’t just about a one time, short-term effort from the city. We’re already contemplating investments of cameras, lighting other things out of the capital budget to reinforce this,” Ginther said. 

While homicides are down, Ginther said more needs to be done when it comes to rising domestic violence trends. He has called on the city’s Office of Violence Prevention to develop a plan that will be presented next month. 

“We really need to get upstream on this, and solving domestic violence is not the police responsibility,” Ginther said. “Oftentimes, the police are called into domestic violence situations that, quite honestly, the rest of the community needs to be taking care of far before the police arrive on the scene in a tragic circumstance. And so I’m calling on everybody to do more.”

NBC4 also asked about the city’s efforts to recover from the massive ransomware attack last July that put half a million people’s sensitive, private information on the dark web. Ginther said 97% of all systems have been restored.

“We’re hoping that reports are going to be completed and finalized here in the next couple of months. Obviously, we want to share that information with the public. There’ll be a council hearing. As you know, we’ve already invested millions more into the operating budget to deal with some cybersecurity issues,” Ginther said.