• The Studies Are Consistent: Housing Creates Jobs, Revenue & Economic Activity
  Housing construction and rehabilitation has been shown to have a substantial positive impact on the state’s economy, including the ability to help the state generate new revenues. Housing development creates jobs, particularly jobs in the construction and service industries. It also provides much needed housing for Connecticut’s moderate and low income households, making the state more attractive for workers and businesses.
• Housing Prices & Personal Income in CT: 2000-2011
  Although median income in Connecticut is high at $66,441, housing prices in the state have grown substantially since 2000.  The price for a single-family home in Connecticut rose by 62 percent from 2000 to 2008, while personal income rose by only 38 percent.

Successes

• Out of Homelessness Through Supportive Housing: Dave's Story
  Dave sits across the table with a friendly smile, adorned in a Yankees cap and orange polo shirt. He's happy, but it's taken a lot of work - "When you're addicted, it's not easy to get out of it."
• Loving The Hollander: Elizabeth's Story
  Bushnell Park is across the street. There are nearby places to eat. "Everyone knows my name. There are tax credit units and market rate units but you can't tell which is which." 
• Supportive Housing Helped Me Find My Voice: Esther's Story
  Esther is an amazing example that supportive housing works. Given the right support, people like Esther can do amazing things.

HOMEConnecticut Fact Sheets

• Progress of Incentive Housing Zones: Status 2012
  This fact sheet is a map of Connecticut showing the towns participating in the HomeConnecticut program prepared by the Partnership for Strong Communities.
• Housing for Economic Growth Program Technical Assistance Grants: Status 2010
  This fact sheet is a map of Connecticut showing the towns participating in the HOMEConnecticut program prepared by the United Way of Connecticut for the HOMEConnecticut Campaign.
• The Benefits of Density & Affordability: Local Officials Underscore Both
  This fact sheet highlights the benefits of density and affordability to municipal leaders. It underscores the importance of affordability and density for munipalities and features photographs of affordable and mixed-use developments in Wallingford, Avon, West Hartford, New Canaan & Farmington.
• HOMEConnecticut: How It Works
  This fact sheets explains the HOMEConnecticut program and how municipalities can receive state funds to benefit building affordable, dense housing.
• Municipal Officials Assess Mixed‐Income Housing
  This fact sheet contains quotes from municiapl officials across Connecticut and their assessments of affordable housing in their cities and towns.
• Mixed-Income and Affordable Housing Doesn’t Lower Nearby Property Values
  MIT's Center for Real Estate looked at 7 mixed-income rental housing developments in Massachusetts and found no significant differences between home values close to affordable developments and those in other parts of town.
• New Housing Doesn’t Automatically Bring New Students and Inflate Your School
  Studying seven Massachusetts communities with mixed-income housing between 1994 and 2004, the University of Massachusetts Donohue Institute found teaching staff levels and overall expenditures increased independently of changes in enrollment.

Reaching Home Fact Sheets

• Opening Doors - Connecticut
  Opening Doors – CT is a framework to prevent and end homelessness in Connecticut that is aligned with the federal Opening Doors plan to end homelessness. The leadership structure for planning and oversight of Opening Doors – CT is the Reaching Home Campaign. This fact sheet offers a short one-page description of Opening Doors - CT.
• Housing and Homelessness
  Housing affordability is out of reach for many of Connecticut’s residents. The economic downturn has changed the face of homelessness as we know it, and many of our state’s families with children are one unanticipated cost away from losing their housing. This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the state of homelessness in CT and housing affordability, and outlines early recommendations as described in Reaching Home’s Opening Doors-CT blueprint to end and prevent homelessness.
• Economic Security
  High housing costs may drive homelessness, but poverty reinforces it. People experiencing homelessness have the direst need for income, but are the least connected to training and employment opportunities. This fact sheet takes a look at the income and employment needs of Connecticut’s most vulnerable populations and offers solutions to ensure that economic security is not an afterthought in the effort to prevent and end homelessness.
• Youth and Homelessness
  Youth become homeless for a variety of reasons and once on the streets they often become an ‘invisible population.’ They are unconnected to social services, families often fail to report youth that are no longer living with them.  For these reasons, estimates of the homeless youth population are often significantly undercounted. This fact sheets provides details on what we do know about homeless youth in Connecticut and discusses how Reaching Home is addressing this unmet need in its implementation of Opening Doors-CT.
• Consumer Feedback Focus Groups
  Hearing feedback from people who have attempted to navigate the homelessness assistance and housing service systems is critical to addressing the barriers associated with exiting homelessness and maintaining housing stability. This report summarizes the findings of six focus groups conducted by the Reaching Home Campaign and will be used to help inform the work of Opening Doors-CT.
• HMIS-Medicaid Data Match Shows Potential to Reduce Costs, Improve Health Outcomes
  A January 2012 data match between HMIS and the DSS Medicaid database indicates that providing supportive housing coupled with health care coordination to a cohort of 419 people who are homeless, high utilizers of Medicaid services could avoid more than $3.5 million in Medicaid costs per year.
• How Supportive Housing Works
  Supportive housing is permanent, independent and affordable housing combined with on‐site or visiting case management and support and employment services. This fact sheet explores how supportive housing works. 
• Supportive Housing is Cost Effective
  The Reaching Home Campaign has created materials to help policymakers and others see how supportive housing can help keep people with complex challenges from the revolving doors of expensive systems. Prevention, coordination and followup - connected to an affordable home - can help people with mental illness, chemical dependency or chronic health problems find stability and success, making them far less likely to wind up in emergency rooms, prisons, nursing homes and other costly settings.
• Organizations Dedicated to Supportive Housing in Connecticut
  This fact sheet details some of the organizations in Connecticut that are dedicated to promoting Supportive Housing across the state.