ending chronic homelessness through the creation of permanent supportive housing,
encouraging the creation of affordable housing to promote economic growth and healthy communities and family life, and
fostering best practices in community development.
The Partnership for Strong Communities works on several different, but interrelated levels towards achieving the goals of ending homelessness, developing and preserving affordable housing and creating stronger communities. The Partnership operates The Lyceum Resource and Conference Center; participates in our neighborhood community development and coordinates planning and strategic policy development and advocacy on a statewide level. The Partnership works with non-profit organizations policymakers, business executives, opinion leaders, the media and other key actors to achieve these goals.
The Partnership promotes supportive housing as a proven solution to chronic homelessness through the Reaching Home Campaign. The goal of the Reaching Home Campaign is to build the political and civic support for creating 10,000 units of supportive housing by 2013.
The Lyceum Resource and Conference Center in Hartford, the Partnership’s headquarters, has become a housing policy center and venue for conferences and meetings. By collecting and sharing information on effective housing policy and projects around the country, The Partnership seeks to connect key government policymakers with thinkers and practitioners to produce affordable and supportive housing. Through education programs at The Lyceum and in public discussions throughout the state, the Partnership seeks to spark an imaginative discourse on homelessness, housing, urban revitalization and a healthy economic future for Connecticut.
The Partnership for Strong Communities is a program of the Melville Charitable Trust—-a Connecticut-based foundation dedicated to finding and fighting the causes of homelessness. The Trust has recently purchased and renovated The Lyceum, a historic structure that has provided a common ground for policymakers, teachers, researchers and other scholars as they devise strategies to fight homelessness and develop housing for workers and their families. The Partnership for Strong Communities is located at The Lyceum and provides oversight for the Lyceum Resource and Conference Center.
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