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Connecticut veterans could eventually have access to more than 70 new housing units under a plan to transform a long-abandoned Hartford elementary school property.
The Hartford Board of Education voted Tuesday to transfer ownership of the former Clark Elementary School site to the city, the first step in a plan to redevelop the property into veterans housing with wraparound support services.
“We need it. We need help,” veteran Bridgitte Prince said.
Clark Elementary School has been closed for more than a decade after crews found PCBs, a chemical associated with cancer, at the property. The site has since become overgrown.
The city would work with the nonprofit United Veterans Alliance of Connecticut to transform the property once it has been cleaned up and deemed safe.
Plans call for more than 70 units of veterans housing across four floors, along with support services.
Advocates say the need for housing is significant. Federal data shows there are nearly 175 homeless veterans in Connecticut, while about 25,000 more are struggling with housing quality and costs.
“Some of whom are homeless. Some of whom are living from paycheck to paycheck,” John Clark III, a Navy veteran, said.
The former school was named after Clark III’s father, John Clark Jr., who was also veteran and Hartford’s first Black city council member. Clark III said transforming the property into veterans housing would preserve his father’s legacy.
“My family is steeped in military service and service to the community,” Clark III said.
The hope is that Hartford eventually transfers site control to the United Veterans Alliance of Connecticut, allowing the nonprofit to apply for brownfield grants to clean up the property before construction begins. Doing the cleanup on its own would be too expensive and has been cost-prohibitive in the past for the City of Hartford.
Prince said creating more housing for veterans in Hartford would be a meaningful way to support those who served.
“Not just say thank you for your service, show us that we really mean something to the city,” Prince said.
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