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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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Learn more about what affordable housing is, who needs it, your commission’s obligations under the Fair Housing Act, and other resources you may need to address housing needs in your town.
- 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 Case Management; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Region CT
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This webinar explores how emergency shelters can be redesigned to support people experiencing homelessness by focusing on housing outcomes. It highlights strategies for creating low-barrier, trauma-informed shelter environments that prioritize safety, dignity, and easy access. The discussion includes how shelters can integrate the voices of people with lived experience and align more closely with permanent housing goals to improve overall system effectiveness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shelter; Crisis Intervention; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Region USA
Advocacy
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National systems change expert, Dr. Tiffany Manuel, PhD, President and CEO of TheCaseMade, will review the results of in-depth research into the challenges to building public support for affordable housing in Fairfield County.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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This session covers topics including CGS 8-30g, Connecticut’s Zoning Enabling Act (PA 21-29), and other municipal zoning issues, as part of the 2022 Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Zoning
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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This webinar covers how to engage residents in an ongoing way to support the affordable housing work happening in your community.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
Advocacy
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Leaders from education and youth development talk with elected officials about the relationship of housing and education, as part of the Fairfield County Talks Housing series.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Education; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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Learn about our new playbook designed to help you change the conversation on affordable housing, as part of the Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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Hear about our new tools to assist local housing organizations with recruiting new board members, as part of the Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region Litchfield County, CT
Advocacy
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Housing and community development practitioners discuss how we can make our communities more sustainable, as part of the Fairfield County Talks Housing series.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Conservation; Community Organizing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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A panel of housing experts and policymakers to discuss the findings of a new report from the State of Connecticut on segregation and housing, as part of the Fairfield County Talks Housing series.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Land Use; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region CT
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Isabel Almeida of United Way discusses the growing number of ALICE (“Asset Constrained, Income Limited, Employed”) households in Fairfield County, as part of the Fairfield County Talks Housing series.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Workforce; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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Learn how short-term rentals like those on AirBnB and VRBO are affecting housing availability and affordability in our region, and how communities can address challenges around these units.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Land Use
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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See the new online Housing Needs Assessment tool for Litchfield County. Learn about the housing, demographic, and affordability data that is available for your town. See examples of how this tool can be used to support housing efforts in your community.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Land Use
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
Advocacy
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We explore the difference between workforce housing and affordable housing and which jobs in the Litchfield County region require affordable housing.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Workforce
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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Housing and economic develop experts will discuss how housing can be an economic driver for Fairfield County and the state as a whole during this brown bag lunch, part of the Fairfield County Talks Housing series.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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See examples of how organizations in both conservation and housing are working together in the region, as part of the 2023 Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Conservation; Community Organizing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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Effective diversion has never been more important than during the coronavirus pandemic. This webinar provides an overview of diversion, the best diversion practices, and how communities are implementing diversion to ensure that new federal COVID-19 homelessness resources are most effectively and efficiently targeted. Accompanying slides and resources are linked below.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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This self-paced training is aimed at health centers that are new to the role of housing navigation. This course will walk through how to connect persons experiencing homelessness to housing and support services. As well as explore the role of a health center housing navigator.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Housing Affordability; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar is designed to share best practices for preventing evictions from single site supportive housing and provides an overview of the importance of housing stability and common risks for instability.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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This self-paced training is designed to explain the high standards and certification process CSH has established to identify the best, most-effective supportive housing in the country.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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This pre-recorded webinar is focused on tools and strategies supervisors can implement to support their teams to help to reduce burnout and to provide trauma-informed support to your team members in these challenging times.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar focuses on preventing eviction and working effectively with landlords and tenants.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar talks about communities that are developing innovative programs to address the needs of people experiencing opioid addiction and, in particular, those who are also experiencing homelessness or housing instability.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar will help you adopt a low-barrier approach to permanent supportive housing and rapid re-housing. We review how to assess your current coordinated assessment processes as well as individual program applications for criteria that screen out rather than in.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Region USA
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This self-paced training is the first part of our supportive housing onboarding series. This short self-paced module introduces supportive housing models, approaches, and components of quality supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar discusses Moving On (sometimes called “Moving Up”) initiatives that further advance supportive housing as a platform for tenant success by empowering tenants who no longer need or want to live in supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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States are increasingly using resources from the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) provided by Medicaid to fund services in supportive housing. HCBS allows individuals to remain at home as they age. This webinar will describe the program's structure and how you can find the funding for tenancy support services in your state's HCBS program. In addition, presenters will share guidance on building partnerships with the HCBS sector at the individual, program, and systems levels.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Employment
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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