The Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness reports encouraging news on state progress in finding housing for those in need.  Homelessness in Connecticut is down nearly 4-percent compared to 2015, and has declined 13-percent since 2007.  The Point in Time Count, conducted on January 26th, found only 45 veterans in emergency shelters, less than half the number identified in 2015, most of whom are engaged in VA services and on their way to housing. 

According to the Point in Time Count, in the Greater Danbury area there were 98 single adults in emergency shelters and transitional housing.  There were 16 children in families and 11 adults in those families.  There were four Unsheltered Persons in the Greater Danbury area.  Four Veterans in Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing and 16 Unsheltered Veterans were counted in the Greater Danbury area.

In the Greater Danbury area, there were 11 families in Emergency Shelters and Transitional Housing.  There were 20 chronically homeless single adults in shelters. 

Adult survivors of domestic violence in Emergency Shelter or Transitional Housing in the Greater Danbury area totalled 16.