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CT hits highest level of homelessness on record. A baby was born in a shelter; people are dying

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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For 10th straight year, hip hop shows across CT to raise money for the homeless

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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Columbus House To Build New 80-Room Shelter

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's Columbus House plans to convert from dormitory to non-congregate shelter model

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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Nonprofit seeks to build new non-congregate shelter

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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Service & ​“Sacred Conversations” Fill The Green

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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Don’t Sweep People Away

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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50 shelter beds open in New Haven, as heat and rents rise

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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50 New Homeless Shelter Beds Open In The Hill

New Haven Independent

50 New Homeless Shelter Beds Open In The Hill

July 7, 2023

Fifty new emergency shelter beds came online in the Hill Friday to help provide a safe, clean, indoors place to sleep for the city’s — and the region’s — rising number of people without a home.

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Emergency Shelter Opens in New Haven for Those Experiencing Homelessness

NBC Connecticut

Emergency Shelter Opens in New Haven for Those Experiencing Homelessness

July 7, 2023

Fifty people who are homeless in the Greater New Haven area will have shelter and a bed through a new community partnership – the city, Columbus House, and local church will all work together to make this happen.

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