What’s Happening on the Homefront
Good people all across our state and throughout the US are working to bring attention to the critical need for housing for the homeless. So much has been accomplished, but important work still carries on.
Local Articles
- Connecticut Officials are Taking on Segregation by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Jenna Carlesso, The Connecticut Mirror
- Homelessness is down in CT. Here are 5 things to know. by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
- Affordable housing doesn’t hurt towns. It helps them — even the wealthy ones by David Fink
- Separated by Design: Why affordable housing is built in areas with high crime, few jobs and struggling schools by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Jenna Carlesso, The Connecticut Mirror
- CT Viewpoint: Make CT more accommodating to housing and businesses by Jim Perras
- Local Efforts to End Homelessness for Young People by Ann Faust
- State Homelessness at Lowest Point in 12 years by Maya Moore
WATCH: Talking Affordable Housing With Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
from NBC Connecticut- Shepherd Home Opens 32 Units for Veterans in Middletown by Cassandra Day
WATCH: Richard Cho Gives Keynote address at the CHH Annual Meeting
from WPAA-TV and Community Media Center- Homelessness Fell 24% in Three Years. How Did Connecticut Do It? by Kyle Constable, The Connecticut Mirror
- Report: 'Affordable' Housing Still Out Of Balance In Connecticut by Kenneth R. Gosselin, The Hartford Courant
WATCH: Middletown Shows How Local Groups Are Fighting Homelessness, Featuring Tony Crews
by Kent Pierce, WTNH News 8- Homelessness and Domestic Violence: What's the Connection? by NAEH
- Housing Inequity can be Both the Cause and Effect of Poverty in Wealthy Connecticut by CTMirror Contributor
- Time to Confront Connecticut's Eviction Crisis — With Lawyers by Sarah Free
National Articles
How Minneapolis became the first to end single-family zoning
from PBS NewsHour- Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare by Alexis C. Madrigal
- The link between Domestic Violence and Homelessness by Samantha Schmidt
Homeless College Students: Out in the Cold
from CBS Sunday Morning- Facts On Homelessness, Housing & Violence Against Women from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
- The Value of Lived Experience by Sheila White, Advocacy Fellow at Miriam’s Kitchen, via USICH.gov
- Yup, Rent Control Does More Harm Than Good by Noah Smith, Bloomberg View
- The Closest Feeling to Homelessness is Having a Broken Heart by David West, The Guardian
- Where do you live? by Prabhjot Singh, Politico
- This Book About Rent Won the Pulitzer — Here’s Why You Have to Read It by Martha C. White, Time Money
WATCH: The 'Housing First' Approach to Homelessness, TED Talk
Lloyd Pendleton, at TEDMED 2016- Domestic Violence and Homelessness from the ACLU Women’s Rights Project
- Is Homelessness Only a Housing Problem? by Stephen Eide, Institute for Family Studies
- LISTEN: City Visions: YIMBYs add new voice to affordable housing fight via NPR, KALW Affiliate