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New Haven opening new temporary homeless shelter for up to 50 people
July 7, 2023
What for a few years has been a winter seasonal overflow facility for the Columbus House shelter off Ella T. Grasso Boulevard is being activated immediately as a temporary emergency shelter that will provide beds and services for up to 50 additional people, Mayor Justin Elicker announced Friday.
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WFSB Eye Witness News3
Temporary emergency homeless shelter opens in New Haven
July 7, 2023
The City of New Haven is opening a temporary emergency shelter on Friday to help those in need.
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New Haven Independent
Shelter Plans 96 New Private Rooms
June 23, 2023
Pencils scratched against paper and voices intertwined as clients and staff at Columbus House came together in the shelter’s sleeping quarters to reimagine its Ella T. Grasso Boulevard location — which is projected to add as many as 96 single rooms in a construction project to begin later this year.
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Columbus House
End of Legislative Session - Results of Our Advocacy
June 8, 2023
A Message from Margaret Middleton, CEO
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Middletown Press/New Haven Register
As New Haven homeless encampments are cleared, where people go remains unclear
May 23, 2023
Job Cervantes, 42, is one of about 15 people, mostly Spanish-speaking immigrant men, living in a dusty encampment of tents beneath a bridge off Lamberton Street in the city's Hill section.
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WTNH NEWS 8
Quinnipiac University students donate leftover food to local organizations
May 18, 2023
Students moving off the Quinnipiac University campus for the summer are giving back to the community.
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WFSB Eye Witness News3
GREAT KIDS: 8-year-old runs lemonade stand to help the homeless
May 16, 2023
When Penelope Jordan from Hamden first noticed the homeless around street corners or along rundown buildings, it hit her different.
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The Middletown Press
'Chocolate to the Rescue': Decadent dessert benefit raises $20,000 for Middlesex Family Shelter
April 6, 2023
Columbus House, an agency that serves those experiencing homelessness, hosted its 20th annual Chocolate to the Rescue event to benefit the Middlesex Family Shelter March 26 at the Elks Crystal Ballroom in Middletown.
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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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