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For 20 years, we’ve united more than 200 partners across Connecticut with one mission: to ensure every neighbor has a safe, stable place to call home.

The Housing Collective is celebrating our 20th anniversary.

Join us as we build a better housing future for Connecticut.

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Our Initiatives

The Housing Collective supports the homeless response system in Western Connecticut, as well as regional housing affordability initiatives in Western and Eastern Connecticut, to ensure stable and affordable housing is available to all.

The Opening Doors Initiative manages the homelessness emergency response system throughout western Connecticut, including Fairfield County, Litchfield County, and greater Waterbury.

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The Centers for Housing Opportunity bring together cross-sector partners to produce, preserve, and protect housing in Fairfield County, Litchfield County, and Eastern Connecticut.

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The Housing Innovation Lab supports homelessness response efforts by integrating systems-level data, innovative tools, and the lived expertise of people who have experienced homelessness.

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The Housing Collective Celebrates 20 Years of Impact, Launches Donor Campaign to Strengthen Connecticut Housing Systems

News

02.18.26

Testimony to the Connecticut General Assembly Housing Committee

News

02.17.26

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Housing series kicks-off at Conn College with discussion on new legislation

In the Media

02.04.26

Hayes tours new affordable home in recent visit to Salisbury

In the Media

02.03.26

Feb 19, 2026

5:15-7:00PM

Adolph Reed, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, outlines the political forces that shaped today's housing system and what change could look like moving forward.

Hosted By Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut
with Connecticut College
Region Eastern CT

Feb 19, 2026

6:30-8:00pm

Learn to work with local news media to tell strong, compelling housing stories. Whether youve worked with media before or not, this webinar will give you the tools you need to communicate with reporters and use the press to amplify your messages within your community and beyond.

Hosted By The Housing Collective
with 3 partners in our collective impact network
Region CT

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We partner with more than 200 organizations working to solve homelessness and address housing affordability.

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120,000

Connecticut needs an additional 120,000 affordable homes to meet demand.

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Provided backbone support for organizations working to solve homelessness and provide housing from 2006 to 2026

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160 %

The Housing Collective helped increase federal funding for homeless response systems in Western Connecticut by 160% over the past 10 years.

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Fact Sheet

New London County Housing Fact Sheets

Initiative Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut
Topic Housing Affordability; Employment; Workforce
Region Eastern CT
Authors Caroline Wells, Nicole McCormack

Report

Just Walk a Day in Our Shoes: Homelessness, Behavioral Health, and Lessons from Lived Experience

Initiative Housing Innovation Lab
Topic Shelter; Crisis Intervention; Homelessness; Diversion; Outreach; Case Management; Health
Region CT
Authors Janis Tondora, Psy.D., Director of Systems Transformation, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, Maria O’Connell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Research and Evaluation, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health; Eliza McNamara; Paul Acker; Ana Rincón

Report

Room at the Table: Increasing Civic Participation in Local Land Use Decision-Making

Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
Topic Housing Affordability; Land Use; Zoning
Region Eastern CT; Fairfield County, CT
Authors Melissa Kaplan-Macey, Beth Sabilia, Lynn Haig, Emma Heintz, Mark McNulty, Nicole McCormack; Additional contributions and data collection by Ron Flores, Connecticut College Professor of Sociology, and interns Mahika Ahmed, Tiana Brathwaite, Annika Brown, Joshua Caskey, Ava Gebhart, and Kiersten Posey

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Learn more and be a part of the solutions for homelessness and housing affordability in Connecticut.

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The Housing Collective is celebrating our 20th anniversary.

Our Initiatives

The Housing Collective Celebrates 20 Years of Impact, Launches Donor Campaign to Strengthen Connecticut Housing Systems

Testimony to the Connecticut General Assembly Housing Committee

Housing series kicks-off at Conn College with discussion on new legislation

Hayes tours new affordable home in recent visit to Salisbury

Housing + Capitalism: Neoliberalism, the Underclass, and the Travesty of Urban Renewal

Housing + Capitalism: Neoliberalism, the Underclass, and the Travesty of Urban Renewal

Media Training for Housing Storytelling

Media Training for Housing Storytelling

New London County Housing Fact Sheets

Just Walk a Day in Our Shoes: Homelessness, Behavioral Health, and Lessons from Lived Experience

Room at the Table: Increasing Civic Participation in Local Land Use Decision-Making

Get informed and get involved.