The COVID-19 pandemic has made even clearer that the key to health is regular health monitoring, screening, and testing. What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You: Helping Clients Face Their Health Fears Following her presentation, national housing policy experts, Ann Oliva and Jill Khadduri, will describe policy solutions and opportunities at the state and federal levels to help communities avoid reaching this tipping point and thereby keep rates of homelessness low. Cheryl Young, Senior Economist at Zillow, will present Zillow’s research linking rising rents and homelessness, discuss the state of the rental market in Connecticut, and suggest steps that Connecticut can take to address rising rents to prevent increases in homelessness. While Connecticut has not yet reached this tipping point, rents in Connecticut have been trending in this direction. Specifically, Zillow’s research has found that homelessness increases in communities when average rents in that community rise above 32% of average household income. Thank you for your support!Īlthough it has long been assumed that homelessness is primarily due to the lack of affordable housing, research conducted by Zillow has found a clear link between rates of homelessness and rising rents. Contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Your donation supports CCEH’s efforts to end homelessness in Connecticut. CCEH is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. (860) 721-7876 For information about major gift, sponsorship opportunities, or gifts of stock, please contact Ryan Beach at. To Donate By Mail Please Send Your Check To:Ĭonnecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Funds provide flexible emergency assistance for first month’s rent, security deposits, and other one-time expenses associated with housing clients experiencing homelessness. Please consider donating emergency funds to move families and individuals into apartments right away. Please join our effort to keep clients and staff safe by helping them stay where they are safest: at home. Connecticut’s shelters are doing everything they can to follow the CDC guidelines of spacing beds 6 feet apart, but the reality is that with current shelter capacity we need to work more quickly than ever to move people out of shelters and into HOMES.
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