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Houses for rent in Cedar-Lee

Cedar-Lee is the commercial district around Cedar Road and Lee Road in Cleveland Heights, a suburb just east of Cleveland's University Circle. It is not one of Cleveland's official city neighborhoods. Our rental portfolio is concentrated elsewhere in Greater Cleveland, but Cleveland Heights has its own Section 8 source-of-income protections and RTA bus access to University Circle and downtown.

Renting a house near Cedar-Lee, Cleveland Heights

Cedar-Lee is the name locals use for the commercial district at the intersection of Cedar Road and Lee Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio — a separate municipality directly east of the City of Cleveland's University Circle area. It is not one of the City of Cleveland's 34 official Statistical Planning Area neighborhoods; renters searching for it are really looking at Cleveland Heights housing stock, which is dominated by early-20th-century single-family and two-family homes on side streets branching off Cedar and Lee roads.

Rent Finder Cleveland's current portfolio is concentrated in Cleveland's east and southeast side city neighborhoods rather than in Cleveland Heights itself, so we can't promise a specific listing on this page today. Tell our leasing team what you're looking for near Cedar-Lee and we'll follow up with relevant options across Greater Cleveland, including nearby city neighborhoods we do serve.

What's around the Cedar-Lee business district?

The Cedar-Lee district is a commercial strip anchored by the Cedar Lee Theatre, a single-screen movie house on Lee Road, along with independent restaurants and retail storefronts. Cain Park, a Cleveland Heights municipal park with an outdoor amphitheater, sits a short distance south along Lee Road. The district borders Cleveland's University area and University Circle — home to Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Clinic's main campus — a few minutes to the west by car or bus.

Cleveland Heights carries its own municipal ZIP code, typically 44118, distinct from any City of Cleveland ZIP. That distinction matters for renters comparing listings, since Cleveland Heights sets its own local ordinances — including the source-of-income protection covered below — separately from the City of Cleveland.

Rent trends in the greater Cleveland area

Cedar-Lee itself sits in Cleveland Heights, not the City of Cleveland, so neighborhood-specific rent data isn't published for this district. As a regional benchmark, Zumper's report dated July 4, 2026 puts the City of Cleveland's overall median asking rent at $1,250 a month, up 4.2% year-over-year, with 3-bedroom homes around $1,350. RentCafe's report dated July 2, 2026 puts the average rent across professionally managed Cleveland apartments at $1,564 for about 787 square feet, with 3-bedroom units averaging $2,716. Both sources show the wider Cleveland region running well below the roughly $1,950 national median Zumper reports — a gap of nearly 36%.

Section 8 vouchers near Cedar-Lee (Cleveland Heights)

Ohio has no statewide law requiring landlords to accept Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8) as a source of income, and the City of Cleveland has not enacted a local protection either. Cleveland Heights is different: it adopted a local source-of-income ordinance in 2021 that bars landlords from refusing an applicant solely for using a housing voucher, according to reporting by Signal Cleveland. That protection applies specifically within Cleveland Heights and a handful of other Cuyahoga County suburbs — it does not extend citywide into Cleveland. Renters should confirm current rules with the specific municipality before assuming any landlord must accept a voucher.

Every home Rent Finder Cleveland manages accepts Section 8 and is HUD-inspection-ready, though our current portfolio sits primarily in Cleveland's city neighborhoods rather than Cleveland Heights. Read our full Section 8 guide for Cleveland for how CMHA vouchers work, or see our guide to houses for rent in Cleveland Heights for the suburb overall.

Getting around: transit and commute

Greater Cleveland RTA operates an extensive bus network through Cleveland Heights, connecting the Cedar-Lee area to University Circle and to Downtown Cleveland's Tower City hub, where the Red Line (heavy rail to Cleveland Hopkins Airport and East Cleveland's Windermere station), the Blue and Green light-rail lines (running through neighboring Shaker Heights), and the Waterfront Line all converge. The HealthLine bus-rapid-transit route runs along Euclid Avenue between Public Square and University Circle, a short bus or car ride west of Cedar-Lee.

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