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 …

In which Jesus is crucified

Yesterday, listeners to WNPR’s “Where We Live” heard Sara Salomons, Journey Home development consultant and a great friend of mine, talk about recent efforts in Connecticut to end chronic homelessness. They also heard about Sal Pinna, a man I met in a class I taught some  years back. He’s been homeless for 20 years, since …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…Sara Salomons, development consultant at Journey Home and I are on WNPR’s “Where We Live.” We’re talking about the 100-day challenge to greatly reduce chronic homelessness in Greater Hartford. Part of that story is Sal Pinna (pictured) and his quest for a Social Security card — a must in order for him to get housed. …