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Yale Daily News
Study tracks changing perception of homelessness
October 24, 2017
The public’s perception of homelessness has changed over the past two decades to become more compassionate and liberal, according to a recent Yale study.
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Hartford Courant
Veteran Supportive Housing Plan Going To Middletown Council In November
October 24, 2017
City officials are seeking the council’s approval to transfer the Mary Shepherd Home at 112 Bow Lane to New Haven-based Columbus House, which would turn the building into 26 one-bedroom apartments and six studios for chronically homeless veterans.
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New Haven Independent
Latest “Vlock House” Built For Homeless
October 3, 2017
A homeless family will be able to look out onto Adeline Street while cooking dinner and also find privacy in a rock garden, thanks to the design of the latest house Yale architecture students built in New Haven.
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New Haven Independent
Housing Remains Elusive In Homeless Fight
September 29, 2017
New Haven in many ways leads the state in the effort to move people out of homelessness. But if the city is going to get closer to the federal goal of ending chronic homelessness among families and youth by 2020, it must create more supportive affordable housing even as it grapples with a small but growing group of young, resilient homeless people who refuse to be helped.
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Yale News
Yale School of Architecture and Columbus House dedicate New Haven home
September 29, 2017
This year’s Jim Vlock First Year Building Project is the first house built as part of a five-year collaboration with Columbus House, a New Haven-based homelessness services provider. Columbus House will select two tenants for the house on Adeline Street: a single tenant for the efficiency unit and a small family for the two-bedroom unit.
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New Haven Register
Construction begins on specialty housing in Hamden
September 19, 2017
Developers and town officials celebrated the start of construction during a ceremony Monday. Regan Development has partnered with the town, the state, Columbus House and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to bring the housing complex to the area.
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WNPR
New Haven Partnership Takes On Affordable Housing, One New Home At A Time
September 11, 2017
A recent study called “Out Of Reach” finds that someone working full-time, earning the federal minimum wage, would be unable to rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in this country. But a new partnership in New Haven is trying to address the problem, one house at a time.
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Connecticut Network
Nonprofit & Community Service Providers Budget Rally at the State Capitol
September 7, 2017
Watch Alison Cunningham, Columbus House CEO, urge legislators to pass a budget and protect community services at the Rally to Protect Nonprofit Services.
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New Haven Register
Liberty Bank Foundation grant competition open for voting Sept. 5
September 4, 2017
n the affordable-housing category, the finalists are Columbus House of New Haven, which operates a shelter and oversees supportive housing for those who are homeless or at risk; Capital for Change, which oversees investment funds in New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford; and Middlesex Habitat for Humanity of CT’s ReStore, a retail home-improvement store that accepts donations and sells at reduced prices, based in Cromwell.
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Columbus House
Columbus House Among Finalists in Liberty Bank $20,000 Grant Competition
August 23, 2017
Columbus House is among nine finalists, from an initial field of 82 entrants, competing for one of three $20,000 grants from Liberty Bank Foundation. Columbus House will be competing in the ‘affordable housing’ category against two other organizations: Capital for Change and the Middlesex Habitat for Humanity of CT’s ReStore.
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