Open adoption, which lets a child’s biological parents visit or get information about them, is growing in CT. Here’s one family’s story.
Ginny Monk
Ginny is CT Mirror's children's issues and housing reporter. She covers a variety of topics ranging from child welfare to affordable housing and zoning. Ginny grew up in Arkansas and graduated from the University of Arkansas' Lemke School of Journalism in 2017. She began her career at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette where she covered housing, homelessness, and juvenile justice on the investigations team. Along the way Ginny was awarded a 2019 Data Fellowship through the Annenberg Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California. She moved to Connecticut in 2021.
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Report: CT judges’ professional backgrounds impact eviction rates
The report shows that judges who used to be corporate lawyers and prosecutors tended to rule more consistently in favor of landlords.
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Lamont’s CT budget plan falls short of social service providers’ requests
The plan lacks the financial investments that CT social service advocates say are necessary to reverse years of financial neglect.
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CT children’s committee to look at mental health, summer camps
CT lawmakers plan to focus on children’s mental health care, summer camp regulations, child care foster care in the 2024 legislative session.
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CT needs more money to combat homelessness, some lawmakers say
A group of lawmakers called for more funding for CT’s homelessness response, but legislative leaders say room in the budget is unlikely.
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Thousands of CT residents wait years for housing vouchers, officials say
CT last opened waiting lists for rental assistance and Section 8 programs for a few weeks in 2007. Some applicants are still waiting.
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CT lawmakers preview housing issues for legislative session
Key legislators on housing issues previewed CT’s 2024 legislative session, a short session in an election year that could make bills hard to pass.
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No omnibus CT housing bills expected this legislative session
CT advocates and lawmakers say they’re chipping away at housing issues this year, rather than proposing the sweeping reforms of last session.
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Tenants on rent strike in Putnam after report finds more lead
The tenants have instituted a rent strike outside of the court system and are asking their landlord for better conditions.
Posted inEconomic Development
Child care, preschool slots for CT children are dropping, report says
The CT Voices report says slots for infant and toddler care are down and preschool slots dropped to the lowest number since at least 2005.
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Lamont to encourage, not mandate, transit-oriented development
Gov. Ned Lamont spoke Thursday about the merits of building housing near public transit, but stopped short of calling for major zoning reform.
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At a CT co-op, unique model keeps housing affordable
The Waterbury housing co-op is built on a land trust, a unique model to preserve affordability by keeping land costs down.
Posted inInvestigations
BEST OF 2023: Political clashes leave CT Baby Bonds program in limbo
Connecticut was nationally lauded for its passage of a law that would implement a baby bonds program. Here’s how the program never got funded.
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BEST OF 2023: The forces that shaped a Hartford toddler’s life — and death
Tabitha Frank’s 2-year-old son Corneliuz died after falling from a window in July. But family hardships preceded the tragedy.
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CT added more housing in 2023, but experts say it’s not enough
Government officials, lawmakers and advocates are looking at solutions to what many say is a growing housing crisis in Connecticut.