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Bridgeport Prospers and PT Partners Join Together for November’s Community Conversation

Bridgeport Prospers, an initiative of United Way of Coastal Fairfield County, works to improve outcomes for kids and families, from cradle to career. [https://bridgeportprospers.org/]

PT Partners is aligned with Bridgeport Prospers for the next two Community Conversations to share experiences and learn about the connection between education and housing.

Did you know, that since April 2023, PT Partners has hosted Community Conversations that bring together residents of public housing from all of the three multi-family large housing complexes? We have seen these conversations grow and the topics have been relevant to the needs of the people who experience the most systemic failures.

This is important to our work because the solutions to how we get free of systemic oppression are within the people who understand the connectedness of us all.

If you are interested in partnering with resident leaders for a monthly Community Conversation, reach out and let us know.

What’s Happening…

Organizing…

WPCA (quarterly meetings 2021-2022): 8 special meetings and 27.5 hours were spent meeting, advocating, and building Resident Leader awareness in PT Partners’ on going campaign to fight for Environmental Justice in PT Barnum Apartments’ neighborhood. During these meetings, we have made efforts to collaborate with Bridgeport’s Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA, a local sewage plant that shares a border with PT) on dealing with the pollution that affects the quality of the air in PT, and a design for the expansion of the plant that will benefit residents. Residents are focused on ensuring that the plant is safe, after the 1974 death of eight-year-old Gary Crooks in an uncovered sewage tank, and decades of living with the horrendous odors coming from the plant.

photo: Daniel @therecinoscompany.com

SAFETY (stopping the violence, summer 2022): 200 signatures were gathered from PT Barnum Apartments, the Charles F. Greene Homes, and Trumbull Gardens residents as a part of PT Partners’ petition specifically addressing violence in low-income public housing in Bridgeport. This petition will be sent to the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Hartford, Connecticut office and will demand a response from housing.

photo: Daniel @therecinoscompany.com