Spring 2026

Housing Plus How Better Housing Connects to Everything

Housing Plus

This year-long series of public conversations brings together prominent scholars, practitioners, advocates, and community members to discuss the role of better housing in strengthening community life in all its aspects.

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Housing Plus addresses experiences of local communities in New London and Southeastern Connecticut as they reflect broader national and global trends and histories.

Shelter is at the center of everything we need to thrive: health, family, food, good education, stable work, community, political participation, and convenient transportation. Therefore, housing challenges are directly related to broader societal problems. Today, as more and more people struggle to secure shelter that meets their needs, our goal must be a better housing system for all–housing plus. This requires that we collectively address the obstacles that constrain many areas of our lives, with housing at the center.

Events will be livestreamed.

Co-organized by Connecticut College and the Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern CT (CHO-EC). Connecticut College contributing sponsors: A Right to Housing: Case Study Connecticut; Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy; Department of Government; Co-Sponsorship Committee; Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity; Department of History; Department of Art History and Architectural Studies.

Upcoming Events

Public conversations on the history and present-day realities of the housing crisis, presented by Connecticut College and the Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern CT.