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Overnight Warming Center Opening In Hamden
January 4, 2024
The Town of Hamden, in partnership with Columbus House, Inc., will open an overnight winter warming center for those experiencing homelessness in the community.
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Connecticut Public
CT's increasing homeless population sets record amid shelter worker shortage
December 21, 2023
Homeless advocacy groups in Connecticut are asking the state for immediate funds to assist a record number of homeless residents to find shelter and support services.
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Hartford Courant
CT hits highest level of homelessness on record. A baby was born in a shelter; people are dying
December 20, 2023
From city streets to the rural woods, new data from the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness revealed that more than 1,000 people are currently living without shelter in the state — a level that they say is the highest ever recorded.
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CT Insider
For 10th straight year, hip hop shows across CT to raise money for the homeless
November 29, 2023
As the holidays approach and the weather gets colder, many people turn to their local food pantries and homeless shelters with giving spirit.
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New Haven Independent
Columbus House To Build New 80-Room Shelter
November 20, 2023
A leading provider of local homelessness services is tearing down its one-story office space — and building 80 bedrooms in its place in order to better accommodate a changing landscape of unhoused New Haveners.
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New Haven Register
New Haven's Columbus House plans to convert from dormitory to non-congregate shelter model
November 17, 2023
The city’s leading homeless services provider, Columbus House, wants to convert to a fully non-congregate model, shifting from the dormitory-style accommodations it currently provides.
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Yale Daily News
Nonprofit seeks to build new non-congregate shelter
November 17, 2023
Columbus House, an organization that provides shelter services to unhoused people in Connecticut, applied to the New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals for approval to build a new non-congregate housing facility.
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New Haven Independent
Service & “Sacred Conversations” Fill The Green
August 7, 2023
If you pack survival kits for the homeless, or hammer in some boards on an affordable house in-the-making, or set upright fallen tombstones in an old Jewish cemetery that needs some love, you’ll be powerfully transformed — and that act of peace-making might just change the world.
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New Haven Independent
Don’t Sweep People Away
July 14, 2023
As the crisis of homelessness grows in our community, so do the number of people sleeping in places that aren’t meant for habitation — under bridges, in woods and parks, and in other public places like train stations. The estimated number of unsheltered people in Greater New Haven has grown from 76 households to 128 at this time last year, an increase of 68 percent. As a result, as many as 60 people per night have sought emergency refuge in Union Station over the last six months.
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CT Public
50 shelter beds open in New Haven, as heat and rents rise
July 7, 2023
New Haven officials opened 50 beds for people experiencing homelessness, just a few blocks away from a former “tent city” where police evicted unhoused people in March.
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