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Journey Home releases Vulnerability Index Findings Report

 

Facts and Figures on Homelessness

On any single night, more than 679 of our neighbors in the Capitol Region are homeless. Each year, over 4,000 of our neighbors spend at least one night in an emergency shelter...

 

Hartford’s Plan to End Chronic Homelessness by 2015
Mayor Eddie Perez initiated the development of a plan to end chronic homelessness in the Hartford region by first: convening a Project Team in June 2004 to conduct research and laying the foundation for the process, and then in December 2004 appointing his commission to end chronic homelessness.  This Commission was lead by Co-Chairs Archbishop Henry Mansell and Susan Rottner, President of Bank of America, and consisted of key stakeholders from the public, private and non-profit sectors.  The attached is their report and recommendations.

10 Year Plan
During the past year more than 4,000 people spent from a night or two to the whole year in an emergency shelter and nearly twice this number were turned away because there was not enough room for them. To address this need, Mayor Eddie A. Perez has led the region in developing a 10-year plan to end homelessness. The primary focus of this implementation plan includes reducing the frequency and duration of homelessness and moving more homeless into stable, permanent housing.

 

Point in Time Count
On January 30, 2008, communities across Connecticut conducted the second statewide count of homeless individuals and families.  The new statewide Point-In-Time Count of homeless indicates a 13% increase in homeless families across the state, a finding consistent with Connecticut’s growing shortage of affordable housing and with survey responses indicating that rent problems have led to homelessness.

 

The Point-In-Time Count was funded by the State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Office for Workforce Competitiveness, Department of Social Services, Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, Connecticut Department of Children and Families, Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Court Support Services Division, The Melville Charitable Trust, and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.  The count was coordinated by the CT Coalition to End Homelessness.

For a copy of the full report, please visit www.cceh.org.