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The Middletown Press
Middletown warming center houses 25 homeless people during winter
March 31, 2021
Local dignitaries visited the Middlesex Warming Center at the Wesley Inn & Suites Tuesday, to commemorate the last day of successful operations for the season.
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CT News Junkie
Advocates Helping Homeless Seek Funding to Pay Staff
March 31, 2021
The expanding needs of the state’s homeless population put a special strain on a rarely discussed group of frontline workers, some of whom barely make ends meet themselves, officials told the Appropriations Committee in support of legislation to ensure adequate funding for homelessness and housing assistance services.
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WTNH News 8
Program keeping homeless out of cold ends Thurs.; Effort to get lawmakers to take on homelessness as state issue continues
March 30, 2021
One program to keep the homeless out of the cold is wrapping up this week, but the effort to get lawmakers to take on homelessness as a state issue continues.
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New Haven Independent
Homeless Lotto Leaves Some Out In Cold
March 16, 2021
Jason Rodriguez and Irma Vazquez gambled on the best way to land a coveted spot in a refuge from the overnight sub-freezing chill. They lost their gamble, and left with no warm place to spend the night.
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NHR Insider (paywall)
We can help people’: New Haven advocates want permanent housing for homeless before hotel program ends
March 13, 2021
Each night, Lisa Steeves lays her head down on a pillow in a hotel room that she shares with one roommate.
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New Haven Register
New Haven health center vaccinates nearly 200 experiencing homelessness; will seek unsheltered residents
March 12, 2021
After vaccinating about 170 homeless people in the last three weeks, Cornell Scott Hill Health Center will be seeking out unsheltered people beginning this week, according to Jessica Arroyo, program manager for the center’s services to the homeless.
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Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness
A Letter from Columbus House CEO Margaret Middleton
March 12, 2021
Who would have thought last March that we would still be in the grips of the pandemic? When the pandemic hit, Columbus House’s emergency shelter, street outreach and housing teams in New Haven and Middletown, overwhelmingly made up of black women and men, stepped up and went to work every day. They showed up at the emergency shelters despite the risk to themselves and their families.
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WTNH News 8
New Haven’s Columbus House makes meals for homeless staying at hotels amid pandemic
March 4, 2021
The pandemic has a lot of people spending a lot more time at home, but what about people who don’t have a home? News 8 looks at the big changes for the Columbus House homeless shelter over the past year
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WTNH News 8
Homeless moved from shelters to hotels to help protect them against COVID-19
March 2, 2021
The pandemic has a lot of people spending a lot more time at home, but what about people who don’t have a home? For much of the last year, a hotel room has been home for Jose Osorio.
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Yale Daily News
Connecticut state senate to deliberate on bill which would establish right to housing
February 25, 2021
Last month, Connecticut State Sen. and Vice President of the Senate Housing Committee Saud Anwar introduced a bill that would recognize the right to housing in Connecticut.
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