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The Housing Collective and our partners develop and deliver tools to help planners, policymakers, service providers, and citizens create innovative and data-driven housing solutions in Connecticut.
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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This Housing Needs Assessment offers data on housing, demographics, jobs, and income from the last two decades in New London, Tolland, and Windham Counties to illustrate past, present, and future trends in housing, as well as employment and education, which are closely related to housing.
- Initiative Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut
- Topic Housing Affordability; Employment; Land Use; Workforce
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Eastern CT
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity; Fairfield County Center for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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These new fact sheets - one for every town and city in Fairfield County - are intended to illustrate how affordable each respective town in Fairfield County is.
- Initiative Fairfield County Center for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Employment; Workforce
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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The Northwest Connecticut Affordable Housing and Conservation Collaboration was initiated in January 2024, with the goal of giving participating communities with the strategies, tools, and relationships to work together to support both local affordable housing efforts and conservation efforts.
- Initiative Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Land Use; Conservation
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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A report from the Centers for Housing Opportunity, presents data on local land use boards and offers recommendations to increase and support civic participation in land use decision making
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Zoning; Land Use
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
Advocacy
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach; Community Organizing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
Advocacy
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach; Community Organizing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach; Community Organizing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Eastern CT
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Region Eastern CT
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A Community Land Trust (CLT) is focused on providing affordable housing for multiple generations with each unit of housing that is produced. This report details how CLTs work and where they currently operate in Connecticut.
- Initiative Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut; Fairfield County Center for Housing Opportunity; Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity; Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Land Use
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Region Eastern CT; Fairfield County, CT; Litchfield County, CT
Advocacy
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Outreach
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
Training
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region Litchfield County, CT
Training
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region Litchfield County, CT
Data
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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This report by the Connecticut Land Conservation Council explores how land trusts can support affordable housing in Connecticut. It outlines three key strategies: understanding local housing needs, forming partnerships, and taking action on housing projects—while maintaining conservation goals.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Community Land Trust; Housing Affordability; Conservation
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Region CT
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The Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released a new toolkit to help HUD grantees and community developers support faith-based organizations that want to build and preserve affordable housing in their communities, in partnership with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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The Northeast Connecticut Council of Governments (NECCOG) has updated its comprehensive economic development strategy for the region with additional sections to address housing, economic development, workforce and educational development, small business development, healthcare access, etc.
- Initiative Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut
- Topic Workforce; Housing Affordability; Employment
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Region Eastern CT
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Urban Institute and Fairfield County's Community Foundation describe the potential economic benefits of closing Black and Latino racial gaps in income, education, and housing in Fairfield County.
- Initiative Fairfield County Center for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Employment; Workforce
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region CT
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
Training
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Region CT
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This fact sheet presents current data on income, wages, and housing costs to illustrate the growing gap between what residents earn and what it costs to live in the city. Using information from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the United Way Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed report (ALICE), and recent job and rental listings, it highlights how rising home values and stagnant wages have made Waterbury increasingly unaffordable for many workers and households.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Workforce; Employment; Housing Affordability
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Region CT
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This fact sheet presents current data on income, wages, and housing costs to illustrate the growing gap between what residents earn and what it costs to live in the city. Using information from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the United Way Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed report (ALICE), and recent job and rental listings, it highlights how rising home values and stagnant wages have made Waterbury increasingly unaffordable for many workers and households.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Employment; Workforce
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Region CT
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This fact sheet presents current data on income, wages, and housing costs to illustrate the growing gap between what residents earn and what it costs to live in the city. Using information from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the United Way Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed report (ALICE), and recent job and rental listings, it highlights how rising home values and stagnant wages have made Waterbury increasingly unaffordable for many workers and households.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Employment; Workforce
- Audience Residents; Officials
- Region CT
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Public Act No. 24-143 went into effect on October 1, 2024. It amends a general statute and clarifies how to calculate property taxes for 100% designated affordable housing developments.
- Initiative Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Capacity Building
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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This lookbook features details and images of five successful affordable housing developments which the Southeastern Connecticut Housing Alliance highlighted during their 2024 bus tour of the region: the Greenville Homes in Norwich; Oxoboxo Lofts in Montville; and the Bayonet Street Apartments, Gorton Street Home, and Friendship Street Duplexes in New London.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity; Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Region Eastern CT
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While communities strive towards providing permanent housing for all who need it, they are still faced with serving the existing unsheltered population, prompting the question: “What do we do in the meantime?” The strategies in this document explain how communities might respond in these situations.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shelter; Crisis Intervention; Homelessness; Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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VeteransGuide.org and the 2025 Veterans Affairs Disability Calculator, an initiative by the Disability Advocate Group, LLC, is dedicated to helping U.S. armed forces veterans understand and secure the VA disability compensation they deserve.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Veterans
- Audience Residents
- Region CT; USA
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The CT Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services (DMHAS) Latino Outreach Program provides regional community outreach services designed to reduce the stigma that surrounds substance use in the Latino community. Latino Outreach workers provide informational sessions and training in traditional settings such as social service agencies as well as non-traditional settings within the Latino community to raise awareness on overdose prevention and substance use programs.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT; CT
Training
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
Training
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- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Land Use; Zoning
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Outreach
- Audience Officials; Community Organizations
- Region USA
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