Center for Housing Equity and Opportunity Eastern CT
The Center for Housing Equity and Opportunity Eastern CT (CHEO) aligns a diverse coalition of practitioners, policymakers, residents, and community organizations to identify and build upon community-driven and data-informed solutions that preserve, protect, and produce safe and affordable housing for all. We believe that equitable access to housing that is safe, affordable, and connected to resources is a human right and critical infrastructure for a thriving region. CHEO focuses on the 52 towns that make up New London, Tolland, and Windham Counties in Eastern CT.
CHEO Goals
Create a shared housing agenda for the Eastern CT region that centers low-income and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and is data-informed
Facilitate the strategic alignment and deployment of every available resource to ensure equitable access to housing opportunity throughout towns in Eastern CT (public, private, local, regional, statewide, federal)
Build public will for affordable housing as critical community infrastructure that must be prioritized throughout the region
Harness the collective power of a multiplicity of perspectives, expertise, capacity, and knowledge to implement innovative, regional housing solutions
Amplify the impact of and provide connectivity between towns, sectors, and organizations working on solutions to housing affordability throughout the region
Support existing housing affordability efforts throughout the region
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CHEO Strategic Partners
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Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens in a global society. The College promotes an understanding of local, regional, national, and international peoples, groups, cultures, and issues, and encourages students to take a life-long interest in them.
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Community Foundation of Eastern CT brings people together to work towards a healthy, thriving, sustainable Eastern Connecticut with greater equity for all. We achieve this by collaborating with partners to put philanthropy into action to address the needs, rights and interests of our community.
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Eastern CT State University engages students from diverse backgrounds in a transformative, liberal arts learning experience that provides knowledge and skills to lead enriching, purposeful lives.
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The Housing Collective is a CT-based nonprofit agency that applies a Collective Impact framework to deliver solutions to the most pressing housing problems. Focused on ending homelessness and creating equitable access to housing opportunities for all, the Housing Collective provides the leadership and support that enables productive, regional collaboration across organizations and sectors and drives systems change.
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Partnership for Strong Communities is a statewide nonprofit policy and advocacy organization dedicated to ending homelessness, expanding affordable housing, and building strong communities in Connecticut. PSC creates and promotes supportive and affordable housing, and community development and connects key state and federal policymakers, local officials, corporate leaders and non-for-profit organizations.
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United Way of Southeastern CT’s mission is to inspire and coordinate the generosity and commitment that sustains a united, thriving community. Generous donors and volunteers enable United Way to support a network of health and human service programs and initiatives in New London County that help people in need and improve community conditions in four areas: Basic Needs; Community Wellness; Promoting Independence; and Thriving Children.
CHEO Staff
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Director
Attorney Beth Sabilia is the Director of the Center for Housing Equity and Opportunity of Eastern Connecticut. Beth is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and Suffolk University Law School. She was in the private practice of law for more than 26 years, all in New London.