Our Work

Equity

Elm City Communities/Housing Authority of New Haven and New Haven Public Schools have been selected as Inaugural Member of The Bridges Collaborative – a Nationwide Initiative to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in education. The first-of-its-kind collaboration connects 55 school and housing groups from 21 states, covering 3.5 million children, and represents the most significant grassroots effort focused on school integration in decades.

Read and learn more about the collaborative and the innovative work visit the Bridges Collaborative page. View or download the full of ECC and Bridges Collaborative Partnership [PDF] press release.

Policy

The housing patterns that we see today are the intentional result of a long history of racist policy. CT remains one of the most segregated states in the country due to the combined impact of years of discriminatory governmental housing policy, banking practices, and local land use decisions. These aspects are upheld through exclusionary practices and taxation policies that we are adamantly taking action to reverse.

ECC/HANH’s Inclusive CT is an initiative for housing policy reform that seeks to blatantly name and demand the needed policy changes on the local, state, and federal levels to eliminate inequities and replace them with opportunities.

Learn more about each policy reform within Inclusive CT that we are fighting to see implemented.

Advocacy

Elm City Communities-Housing Authority of New Haven (ECC-HANH) maintains a close working relationship with our local, state and federal elected officials, which increases resources and strengthens collaborative efforts and partnerships as we move to build a better community.

We are continually monitoring the trends and emerging issues that could impact the families and individuals that we assist by; creating and preserving affordable communities of choice; providing rental assistance and opportunities for greater self-sufficiency.