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 There is Hope for Displaced Teens in Middlesex County, Say Youth Crisis Workers by Cassandra Day, Middletown Press 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 The Impossible (And Necessary) Task of Counting Homeless Youths by Susan Campbell, New England News Collaborative WATCH: Veteran Apartment Project In Middletown Gets Final Approvals by Shawn R. Beals, The Hartford Courant National Articles 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 Yup, Rent Control Does More Harm Than Good by Noah Smith, Bloomberg View Domestic Violence and Homelessness from the ACLU Women’s Rights Project Facts On Homelessness, Housing & Violence Against Women from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty Is Homelessness Only a Housing Problem? by Stephen Eide, Institute for Family Studies 10 Facts About Homelessness by Bill Quigley, HuffPost The Value of Lived Experience by Sheila White, Advocacy Fellow at Miriam’s Kitchen, via USICH.gov LISTEN: City Visions: YIMBYs add new voice to affordable housing fight via NPR, KALW Affiliate