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 …

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 …

Connecticut homelessness is down 10 percent

We know this because the annual Point-In-Time count says so. Taken earlier this year, the PIT numbers  just got crunched, and they are — in a lame word —  encouraging. I’ve been hanging around policy types for too long to use words like “awesome” or “fabulous,” though those are the words that seem a better …

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 …