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ArchDaily
2018 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project / Yale School of Architecture
December 13, 2018
Each year since 1967, students in the Yale School of Architecture’s professional degree program have designed and built a structure in the summer after their second semester.
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New Haven Register
New Haven’s Columbus House receives $200,000 Bank of America grant
December 6, 2018
The local anti-homelessness nonprofit Columbus House has received a $200,000, two-year “Neighborhood Builder” grant, Bank of America announced Thursday at an end-of-year annual meeting at the New Haven Lawn Club.
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New Haven Independent
Youth Continuum, Columbus House Get Nearly $1 Million To Tackle Youth Homelessness
November 19, 2018
An orphaned teenager lives with her uncle. Then the uncle loses his job and says he doesn’t have enough money to feed her. She must leave.
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New Haven Register
New Haven gets part of $6.5 million grant for youth homelessness services
November 16, 2018
More than $6.5 million in federal grants will go toward ending youth homelessness in Connecticut.
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University of New Haven
University of New Haven Donates Furniture to Local Homeless Shelter
October 29, 2018
Laura Miller, the University’s director of energy and sustainability who coordinated a contribution to the Columbus House, discusses her efforts to reduce waste by giving back to the community and shares how students can get involved.
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The Yale Herald
Making Models Matter
October 26, 2018
During spring break of 1967, while most Yale students returned home or chased warmth down south, 30 first-year Yale Architecture students arrived in New Zion, Kentucky. In their bags were design plans for a community center, to be built on half an acre of land owned by local families.
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Curbed
Yale architecture students built this innovative timber home for the formerly homeless
October 17, 2018
For the 2018 Jim Vlock Building Project at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA)—an annual program that asks first year students to design and build a home for low-income families and individuals—students were challenged to work with cross-laminated timber (CLT), an innovative wood panel product typically used in mid-rise structures as well as increasingly popular tall timber buildings rising around the world.
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New Haven Independent
New Vlock House Wows In The Hill
October 16, 2018
Sandra could hardly contain her excitement. The house was, in her estimation, perfect: beautiful, modern, and full of natural light. Best of all, she exclaimed, “Look at all the people it holds!”
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St Mungo's
Outreach on the streets of Connecticut
September 17, 2018
This summer Ed Addison, Case Coordinator for St Mungo’s project Street Impact London, took part in an eye opening two week long cultural exchange programme, travelling to Connecticut in the USA to learn about their approach to supporting people who are sleeping rough. Ed explains more about the homelessness situation in New Haven, the challenges they face conducting outreach and what he has taken away from the experience.
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Columbus House
Alison Cunningham, CEO, on New Haven Green Overdose Crisis
August 17, 2018
By today, that toll has risen to over 70 people who have been affected by a bad batch of K2 being distributed (given away and sold) on the New Haven Green. K2 is a synthetic cannabinoid and is illegal in CT.
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