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Housing issues affect everyone in Connecticut, from those who are searching for a safe place to live, to those who may find it increasingly difficult to afford a place they already call home.WNPR is covering Connecticut's housing and homelessness issues in a series that examines how residents are handling the challenges they face. We look at the trends that matter most right now, and tell stories that help bring the issues to light.

Communities in Recovery

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We come to rely on our communities being a certain way. A disaster can change all that.

It can take the form of a tornado. That’s what happened one year ago in Joplin Missouri - a city that was nearly wiped out - with 160 of its residents killed.

More than a week later, another large tornado surprised Springfield, Massachusetts - destroying buildings downtown, ripping out trees, and also killing three.

Some disasters don’t cause the loss of life - but can rip the heart out of a town. The Bevin Bell fire over this weekend cost the town of East Hampton a big part of its identity.  Today, where we live, how communities recover from disaster.

We’ll check in on Vermont, where last year’s flooding swept away picture-postcard New England villages.

And, we’ll look back at a 1998 fired that raged through Branford center - and how that town’s bounced back.  

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