After shelter space peaked in 2010, the number of emergency beds and transitional housing units for Connecticut’s homeless has decreased by more than 34%, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual Housing Inventory Count Report.
The 211 hotline has received more than 334,000 calls for housing and shelter requests this year, an increase of nearly 27% from the same period in 2021. But the hotline can't keep up and many say it's left them with nowhere to go.
For 2022, 61 employers made the winners list. Energage invited 1,299 organizations to participate, and they were eligible provided they had 50 or more employees in the Greater Hartford area.
These organizations, business and corporate leaders were chosen based on standout scores from a comprehensive survey of employees in Top Workplaces companies in Connecticut.
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