This summer, Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven had the privilege of touring the recently completed Great Hill...
Great Hill Cottages: How Sustainable Homeownership Bloomed in Guilford
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Building Equity in Energy Savings: Highlights from EEB’s First Working Group Meeting
In July, Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven was proud to host the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Board (EEB)’s...
Communities Local Energy Action Program
Through the Communities Local Energy Action Program (LEAP), a coalition of local New Haven, Connecticut organizations...
Step by Step, From the Vulnerable to Change Makers
Lorena Venegas has just turned 50. She feels grateful when she reflects on her journey that began in Chile with her family. She was born in the U.S. but went back to Chile because her parents' visas...
NHS works with Muralist Kwadwo Adae on new mural of groundbreaking figure in New Haven history
Director of Community Building & Organizing Stephen Cremin-Endes reflects on our history with Kwadwo: "I am not sure when I first met Kwadwo Adea or how but I remember a couple of things...
Doreen Abubakar, Resident Leader and NHS of New Haven Partner
Doreen Abubakar has a history with NHS and our staff dating back to the early 1990s when she and our Community Sustainability Director, Kathy Fay, were neighbors in the Dixwell neighborhood. They...
DeTrashing in New Haven
NeighborWorks Week is coming up! As part of this week of volunteering and community events, we are asking everyone to clean up trash around their favorite places and post a picture of the trash they...
NeighborWorks Week ’21
June 5 was the start of our annual NeighborWorks Week! This nationwide event promotes community engagement, togetherness, and volunteerism. For NeighborWorks Week we focused on beautifying the NHS...
New Haven Civic Innovation Prize just awarded $7000 to Project Lighten Up
It’s late at night. You’re at a street corner. In one direction, the sidewalk is lit. You see down the road, a porch light turns on at the other end of the block. In the other direction, the light...
Data-backed Improvements
Working with our new company, HOC Lending, we provide relief services to homeowners identified by a current NHS data project. Headed by our Community Building & Organizing (CB&O) department,...
Rest easy with Project Lighten Up
The Project Lighten Up initiative seeks to use the installation of lights as a means to improve perceptions of safety and as a tool to help reduce certain rates of crime in the Newhallville...
