After eight years of falling, Connecticut's homeless population is ticking upward again. Information collected in a statewide database
shows the number of homeless people up from just under 26 hundred to more than 29 hundred
-- a gain of 13 percent. David Rich of the Housing Collective in Fairfield County calls the increase severe. Michele Conderno of Open Doors
Community in Norwalk sees it as devastating. Rising prices, the pandemic and a shortage of housing
are all factors behind this say experts, who caution that Connecticut's homeless population may keep rising in the coming
months.