Hartford’s mayor proposes issuing city IDs

Yesterday, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra announced at a press conference the possibility of Hartford offering her residents photo IDs, which would allow city residents to apply for services such as supplemental nutritional programs, access to the City’s health clinic which is free for the uninsured, food vendor licenses, as well as access to ancillary benefits …

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 …