The Housing Collective Inc

The organization partners with municipalities, nonprofit agencies, and housing stakeholders to advance housing access and affordability. Activities include convening cross-sector partners, providing technical assistance, and coordinating data-driven strategies to expand local housing options. Efforts strengthen capacity at the municipal and regional levels to achieve sustainable housing systems.

The housing collective operates the housing innovation lab to test and scale data-informed, community-driven solutions that improve housing system performance. The lab leads research, pilot projects, and training efforts focused on systems change, data integration, and engagement of people with lived experience of homelessness. Results inform statewide policy and practice improvements.

The corporation supports opening doors fairfield county, the regional hud designated continuum of care system through funding by hud's continuum of care homeless assistance program. Activities include designing and carrying out a collabortive process for the development of an application to hud; evaluating the outcomes of projects for which funds are awarded; and developing a regionwide process involving the coordination of multiple stakeholders for ending homelessness.the corporation promotes cross sector collaboration between the region's workforce development board ("the workplace inc.") and the area's prominent homeless providers that include alpha community services/cccymca and new reach, new haven. The goal of supportive services for veteran families ("ssvf") is to help veteran families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, quickly regain stability in permanent housing. Identifying housing opportunities and providing technical assistance, the corporation ensures successful implementation of this employment/housing model.the corporation is a subcontractor of operation hope who receives funding from the connecticut department of mental health & addiction services to operate the bridgeport housing first ("bhf") program, a successful locally designed multi-agency initiative that was originally funded under a three-year federal grant. Under the bhf program, the corporation funds a team leader and provides leadership and programming support to oversee the operation of housing chronically homeless households in the greater bridgeport area.