Supportive Housing

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Housing To Help End Chronic Homelessness
About 33 thousand homeless people live in Connecticut. Only about half show up in the shelter system. The other half live in abandoned buildings, cars, with family or friends going from place to place. Advocates believe they’ve found a successful model that can help end chronic homelessness. WNPR's Caitlyn Kim reports. Listen

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Learn about our Supportive Housing work.

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Ending Homelessness as we know it - Reaching Home Goal: Create 10,000 units of Supportive Housing in the next 10 years.

Reaching Home Brochure- This document provides information about why supportive housing works to end homelessness, who is homeless in Connecticut, statistics about how supportive housing works in Connecticut, the benefits of supportive housing and how you can help the Reaching Home Campaign.

A Guide for Expanding Supportive Housing in Connecticut - This guide is intended to inform the efforts of community leaders, policy-makers, advocates, continuums of care, planners, housing developers and other citizens as they work to build strong communities and eliminate homelessness. The focus of this guide is on supportive housing, the centerpiece of efforts to end long-term homelessness.

The Reaching Home "Walkaround Piece" - This publication provides you with an easy way to both describe with text and show with pictures what supportive housing is and why it is effective. Topics covered include: how we can end long-term homelessness in Connecticut through the creation of 10,000 units of supportive housing, homelessness in Connecticut, what the 10 Year Plan to End Long-Term Homelessness in CT, statistics about why we can no longer afford not to end homelessness, an explanation of what supportive housing is, how supportive housing can end long-term homelessness, how supportive housing is cost-effective, who pays for supportive housing, how the 10 year plan will be funded, and the story of supportive housing's success in Connecticut.

The Next Step - 1000 units.
For more information about Reaching Home visit The Partnership for Strong Communities' website.

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