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New Haven Independent
Don’t Like Encampments? Fund Solutions
March 24, 2023
Last week the City of New Haven bulldozed an encampment of tents and make-shift structures along the West River called Tent City that was built by people experiencing homelessness.
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New Haven Register
New Haven's plans for homelessness grant now include non-congregate shelter
March 8, 2023
The city this winter has operated short of about 100 homeless shelter beds, instead keeping people safe in overnight "warming centers" that they can't sleep in as the Columbus House shelter operates at capacity and people without permanent homes live in a makeshift "Tent City" and other out-of-the-way spaces.
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UI, SCG Announce Grant Funding to Help Columbus House Manage Energy Costs
March 1, 2023
United Illuminating and Southern Connecticut Gas, subsidiaries of AVANGRID, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), today announced the award of a $15,000 grant to Columbus House in New Haven to help the nonprofit manage rising energy costs in support of its vital mission to provide life-saving shelter, housing assistance, and critical services to those experiencing homelessness.
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New Haven Register
New Haven officials eye $4.85M grant to address homelessness
February 17, 2023
A plan to use a $4.85 million federal grant to address issues related to homelessness, including $4 million to build "deeply affordable" housing aimed at people without homes, advanced this week after a number of homeless residents and advocates said the way the city treats people experiencing homelessness needs to change.
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New Haven Independent
Competing Visions Emerge For Homelessness $
February 17, 2023
Should a nearly $5 million federal grant fund a couple dozen affordable housing units, or more humane infrastructure to help the city’s unsheltered residents survive the perils of living outdoors?
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Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen
Offering Recommendations & Demanding Action
February 17, 2023
DESK’s recommendations were developed in coordination with the Greater New Haven Regional Alliance to End Homelessness, and our Executive Director, Steve Werlin, gave oral testimony alongside our partners from Columbus House, Liberty Community Services, and Fellowship Place. (Watch the testimonies below.) In addition, DESK worked with the Alliance’s Advocacy Committee to draft written testimony, copied-and-pasted below
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WTNH NEWS 8
Homeless advocates express concerns over governor’s budget proposal
February 9, 2023
Advocates for the homeless are worried about Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s new budget proposal. They say their patchwork of nonprofit organizations has worked for too long with little to no help from the state.
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New Haven Independent
State Lands $18M Homelessness Lifeline
February 3, 2023
Oscar Britt has a plan to survive subfreezing temperatures this weekend thanks to a connection he made with outreach workers who found him a hard-to-secure shelter bed at Columbus House.
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The CT Mirror
Housing committee public hearing brings focus to homelessness
February 2, 2023
Connecticut’s homelessness response system needs more money to address the need that has sprung up since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, service providers told legislators Thursday.
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