Annual Reports

The Housing Collective’s 2025 Annual Report highlights a period of resilience and persistence.

Nearly 20 years ago, The Housing Collective began with a small group of homeless response leaders in Fairfield County who believed there had to be a better way. Instead of competing for scarce resources or working in isolation, they chose to coordinate, align, and work together at the regional level to solve homelessness.

That decision became the foundation for The Housing Collective, which today works with nearly 250 partners like you across Connecticut to strengthen homelessness response systems and expand access to safe, affordable housing.

In 2025, that work remained as urgent as ever. Homelessness and housing instability continued to grow because Connecticut’s housing systems have not kept pace with the needs of your communities. In response, The Housing Collective made difficult but necessary decisions to strengthen the organization, increase flexibility, and ensure that its team can remain resilient and responsive. At the same time, with your support, it continued to advance and integrate its core initiatives: Opening Doors, the Centers for Housing Opportunity, and the Housing Innovation Lab.

The work you make possible does more than respond to homelessness today. It helps build the housing future Connecticut needs.

The Housing Collective’s 2023–2024 Annual Report highlights a period of impact, innovation, and growth. 

Through its three core initiatives—the Opening Doors Initiative, Centers for Housing Opportunity, and Housing Innovation Lab—The Housing Collective strengthened homelessness response systems, advanced housing development, and fostered cross-sector learning and innovation. Backed by 200+ community partners and a strong funding base of public and private support, the organization launched a refreshed brand, a new strategic plan, and continued to expand its role as a catalyst for housing solutions throughout Connecticut.

The Housing Collective’s 2021–2022 Annual Report captures a period of reset and renewal. 

It unveiled a refreshed brand identity and governance structure, launched a new and diverse board, and expanded the Centers for Housing Opportunity model by opening the Litchfield County center alongside Fairfield’s. The Housing Collective also introduced six homeless Community Hubs and improved local access to services via Coordinated Access Network (CAN) hubs. All of this forward progress was supported by a broad coalition of public and private partners across Connecticut.

The Supportive Housing Works 2019–2020 Annual Report highlights a period of resilience and  collaboration. 

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, partners across Western Connecticut quickly adapted, providing safe shelter, implementing innovative safety protocols, and ensuring the health and stability of the region’s most vulnerable residents. During this time, Supportive Housing Works was able to push forward with a number of critical new partnerships and initiatives; including a statewide affordable housing data project, the launch of the HUD Youth Homeless Demonstration Project, and expanded backbone support in Northwest Connecticut,