This is the last week of the 100-day challenge

Since March, activists, advocates, policy makers, legislators, and folks who want to do something awesome have devoted the last 100 days to open 100 homes for people who desperately need them. People have put in insane hours and moved insurmountable mountains to make sure people like Sal, Jack, and Shannon now have a place to …

So I went to the Annual Training Institute for CCEH yesterday

That’s CT Coalition to End Homelessness, to you. I’m on the board, and I got there late because I was recording a show for Monday’s “Where We Live” on — yes! — homelessness. Want to hear what we call homelessness is actually a rather recent construct? You can listen here, come 9 a.m. Monday. Click …

Don’t bother me. I’m at the ATI

That’s Annual Training Institute, the annual meeting of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, where I’m on the board and learning something new every day. Here’s what I know: We can and will end homelessness as we know it. We can and will provide homes and supportive services to the Connecticut residents who need them. …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I’m on WNPR’s “Where We Live” tomorrow at 9 a.m., talking about today’s Point In Time homeless census, the upcoming 100-day challenge, and homelessness in Connecticut with Lisa Tepper Bates of Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, and Matthew Morgan, of Journey Home. Listen! Call in! Heckle!

It’s here. The PIT count.

This week marks Connecticut’s rescheduled Point-In-Time count, the census of our homeless population to see who’s out and who’s in. Beaucoup volunteers have signed up to help count, and to administer a different kind of census, a tool that essentially grades people based on their needs, and their vulnerability (it has a long name, but …