About that ending of veterans homelessness in CT…

Yesterday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced that Connecticut had ended veterans homelessness. The state actually accomplished this by the end of 2015, but they were waiting on the Department of Housing and Urban Development to officially verify it. It is one thing to say one has accomplished such a feat, and quite another to have …

The not-so-hidden costs of reporting rape

Susannah sent this, a stark and eye-opening piece by Julia Sonenshein about what it can cost (financially) to report a rape, from time lost from work to perhaps having to find new housing. Jaysus. As the article said: It’s a wonder any one reports rape, consider how the system is stacked against the victim.

I’ve never understood cynicism

On Sunday, I wrote a column for Mother Courant about the need for providing household goods for people who have been homeless, but now are being housed through Greater Hartford’s 100-day challenge. The response has been, in a word, incredible. Sara Capen Salomons is the contact person for Journey Home, the lead agency in the …