Camila Vallejo
Fairfield County Housing Reporter, Report For AmericaCamila Vallejo is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms. She is a bilingual reporter based out of Fairfield County and welcomes all story ideas at cvallejo@ctpublic.org.
Camila covers housing with a focus on disparities and the people affected by them. Before moving into a reporter role, she was an intern and producer for All Things Considered at Connecticut Public Radio. Her work has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, PRX's The World, NPR's Here and Now and more.
Camila enjoys a good cup of coffee, snuggling with her two cats and traveling.
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As demand for affordable housing grows, advocates are pushing suburban towns to do more, not only to address economic pressures, but racial equity issues as well. -
Last year, Connecticut became the third state in the country to authorize a statewide right to counsel program. The program gives income-eligible tenants facing eviction access to free legal representation and is already showing impact. But scaling up the program to the whole state may take time.
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In Connecticut, landlords can require up to two months of rent as a security deposit. An alternative being explored is damage insurance that would be included in the monthly rent.
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Connecticut is ranked as one of the most expensive states for housing. And a new national dashboard finds residents in some of the state’s bigger cities might not have a personal safety net to weather economic shock.
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Connecticut’s emergency housing hotline is cutting its hours of operation as funding runs dry for 24/7 service. The call center, run by United Way, has been the single entry point to the state’s homelessness response.
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Connecticut’s homelessness response system may soon see some changes. The system’s “front door,” also known as United Way’s 211, could cut back hours as funding runs low. And some organizations are concerned.
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Sandy Hook shooting survivor Jordan Gomes applauds the nearly $1 billion verdict against Alex Jones and Free Speech Systems,
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The I’M HOME initiative will provide assistance to income-eligible residents in hopes of strengthening New Haven neighborhoods.
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Nine months into negotiations, nurses at Windham Hospital are on strike over the next two days.
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In 2019, Connecticut was home to the sixth-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States.
