
Camila Vallejo
Fairfield County Housing Reporter, Report For AmericaCamila Vallejo is a corps member with, 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 º£½Ç»»ÆŞ 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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Incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker easily won a third term as mayor of New Haven Tuesday night.
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Incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker handily won New Haven’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, defeating Liam Brennan, a former assistant U.S. attorney.
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This mother paid her rent, turned to the city for help with housing code violations, and won a complaint for an unjust rent hike. Why was she still forced to leave?
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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.
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Last year, º£½Ç»»ÆŞ 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 º£½Ç»»ÆŞ, 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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º£½Ç»»ÆŞ 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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º£½Ç»»ÆŞâ€™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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º£½Ç»»ÆŞâ€™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,