Advocates and Lawmakers Call for Funding to Support More than 1,000 Unhoused People in Connecticut
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A tent among several within a homeless encampment next to I-84 in Hartford on Tuesday, March 20, 2021. Photo credit: Doug Hardy, CTNewsJunkie
State Rep. Jillian Gilchrest (D-West Hartford), who co-chairs the legislature’s Human Services Committee, rejected the notion that Connecticut was fiscally healthy if the state was not adequately supporting its unhoused population.
By Hugh McQuaid, CTNewsJunkie.com
At least 1,000 people are unsheltered in Connecticut, advocates and lawmakers said during a Wednesday press conference where they called for additional state investments to combat homelessness as temperatures drop around the state.
“We have a thousand people who, today, are outside. They’re cold; they’re scared; lives are at risk. Together, we can save lives,” Sarah Fox, CEO of the Coalition to End Homelessness, said during a morning press conference in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
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