The Housing Collective

The backbone for organizations working to end homelessness and ensure stable, affordable housing is available for everyone.

The Housing Collective (HC) has worked since 2006 to align communities and resources around collaborative regional responses to homelessness and housing affordability. Our core initiatives, Opening Doors (homelessness), the Centers for Housing Opportunity (housing affordability), and the Housing Innovation Lab (housing data and technology solutions), provide regional leadership and facilitate the strategic coordination of hundreds of housing and homelessness organizations in multiple geographies, forming a “backbone” for the housing system throughout Western CT. Using data and innovation to inform strategy and ensure efficacy, equity, and accountability, we are relentless in our efforts to drive and measure systems change that improves the lives of vulnerable and historically marginalized residents.

We envision a future where a safe, stable, and affordable home is available to every member of our communities as a springboard to opportunity and the foundation for a healthy, productive, and meaningful life.