The Housing Collective facilitates regional initiatives to collectively address housing challenges in multiple geographies across Connecticut. Using a Collective Impact model, we provide the dedicated staff necessary to strategically align resources in order to recalibrate regional housing ecosystems to ensure equitable access to safe and affordable housing for all.
Centers for Housing Opportunity (CHO)
The Centers for Housing Opportunity are place based strategic partnerships that braid together housing practice, policy, advocacy, and resources to address regional housing affordability. Each CHO aligns key regional partners and resources in support of a shared strategy to ensure equitable access to safe and affordable housing.
Opening Doors (ODI)
Through a Collective Impact approach, ODI coordinates the strategies of homelessness emergency response and prevention services to ensure that episodes of homelessness are rare, brief and non-recurring and that all citizens within the region have access to safe, affordable housing. The Housing Collective serves as the designated lead of the state’s homelessness Coordinated Access Networks in Fairfield County and in Northwest CT.
Opening Doors Fairfield County
Northwest CT Coordinated Access Network
Housing Innovation Lab (HIL)
Supporting systems change with data, technology, and training resources.
As the newest initiative of the Housing Collective, the Housing Innovation Lab (HIL) is developing strategies to maximize the impact of the Opening Doors and Centers for Housing Opportunity collective responses to homelessness and housing instability.
The Lab’s work is centered on four pillars – data, inquiry, lived expertise, and capacity building – across which we set goals and track progress, source best practices and new ideas, create literal and figurative space for curiosity and community building, and translate and operationalize ideas into action.
The Lab is a testament to the Housing Collective’s relentless commitment to innovative solutions that support systems change and accelerate collective progress toward ending homelessness and ensuring stable, affordable housing is available for everyone.
