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...
Trish Builds Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Living with I Heart My Home CT
Trish Helm is a gardener and an active member of the community for a long time. "I'm in the Garden Club of New Haven, there are a number of civic activities that the garden club sponsors and I'm...
What does Advanced Certified Master Gardener mean?
Rachel Ziesk has been the instructor of Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven (NHS) Gardening Classes for 10 years. She considers gardening, and showing people how, as her passion rather than a...
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...
NHS of New Haven and the New Haven HomeOwnership Center Receive $13,000 in contributions from the Avangrid Family of companies (United Illuminating and Southern Connecticut Gas) for Home Energy Conservation Construction and Improvements and energy conservation grants to low-income families.
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven (NHS) and the New Haven HomeOwnership Center (HOC), received a total of $13,000 in contributions from United Illuminating and Southern Connecticut Gas...
NHS facilitates West River Watershed forum
On December 9th, the West River Watershed Coalition (WRWC) held its fourth forum to identify priorities to guide the coalition’s work for the next three to five years. Actionable items in three...
“10/10! I would recommend I Heart My Home CT to anyone I know who wants to improve their home’s efficiency.”
When Crystal Blair became a first-time homeowner in August 2020, she thought the funds planned through her rehab loan would be enough to fix the house up and ensure a comfortable, healthy haven for...
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...
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,...
Enter, I Heart My Home CT
Did you know a typical household wastes around 30 percent more energy than an efficient one does? Connecticut promotes energy efficiency to help customers cut their consumption and bills, but where...
