A plan to end chronic homelessness in CT

On Wednesday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and others will speak at the Zero: 2016 CT Summit to kick off Connecticut’s strategic plan to end chronic homelessness by the end of 2016. Connecticut is one of only four states to participate in the national Zero: 2016 initiative organized by Community Solutions. At the summit, teams from Connecticut’s …

Can you help a sister out?

This is a picture of what was once a perfectly respectable garage owned by my friend, Sara Capen Salomons, one of the movers and shakers behind Great Hartford’s 100-day challenge to greatly reduced the number of people who are chronically homeless. As people get housed — and they are getting housed at a pace you …

Want to be a part of the 100-day challenge?

Talk to your clergy. In Greater Hartford’s 100-day challenge to house 100 chronically homeless people, consider what that means. That’s 100 people — at least — who are moving into apartments with nothing more than what they’ve carried on their backs. Pictured just above is Sal Pinna. He’s one of the people who’s about to …

As you read this…

  …a cadre of volunteers are among ’em, searching the byways and highways for people who are sleeping rough, sleeping outside in this awful weather. The point is to count them (this is the annual Point In Time count), and interview them (this is new), and see what services they need to be housed. These …