CT’s first hotel-to-homeless shelter opens in Hartford
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Mark Mirko / Connecticut Public Outside the The McKinney, a newly opened 80-bed shelter for people experiencing homelessness, resident Peter Kouloganes says he became homeless after losing his savings to pay for lifesaving cancer treatment. “The respect and the dignity and the sense of hope that I got back, it came back when I came back here, because I literally had lost all of that,” Koulgoanes said. “I was literally at the point where it logically did not make sense for me to continue living. I was looking at it from that perspective, and I had walked into those doors that way.”
A homeless shelter that is the first-of-its-kind in Connecticut recently opened in south Hartford.
The McKinney, an 80-bed shelter on Brainard Road, opened up at the former Days Inn hotel. It is the first shelter in Connecticut to open in a converted hotel.
The shelter is run by the nonprofit Community Renewal Team (CRT)…
