The housing collective will use CDS funds to connect, interpret, and operationalize existing housing data sources and policy resources into one public facing data dashboard. - the housing collective…

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded The Housing Collective, Inc. $723,000 on August 31, 2026, under the Social Services Research and Demonstration program (CFDA 93.647).

The Housing Collective will connect, interpret, and operationalize existing housing data sources and policy resources into a public-facing data dashboard. The organization will launch Housing Innovation Lab: Afford CT, a statewide policy translation, implementation learning, data-gap analysis, measurement guidance, and public education project designed to help Connecticut communities move from housing information to local action. The initiative will turn research, field experience, resident voice, and partner insight into accessible resources that support better housing decisions and implementation across Connecticut.

Work is performed in Connecticut and concludes August 30, 2027. The Housing Collective, a Connecticut-based nonprofit, operates through its Supportive Housing Works division and delivers permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homeless management information systems primarily in the Bridgeport area. The organization's federal grant portfolio is concentrated with HUD's Community Planning and Development office, though this award funds ACF's social services research and demonstration portfolio.

The housing collective will use CDS funds to connect, interpret, and operationalize existing housing data sources and policy resources into one public facing data dashboard. - the housing collective will use this award to launch housing innovation lab: afford CT: a connecticut housing policy translation and implementation learning project, a statewide policy translation, implementation learning, data-GAP analysis, measurement guidance, and public education project designed to help connecticut communities move from housing information to local action. Housing innovation lab: afford CT will help close that GAP by turning research, field experience, resident voice, and partner insight into accessible resources that support better housing decisions and implementation across the state.