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The Moore family — who found opportunities for better lives in public housing — served as the human face of a celebration of New Haven winning recognition as one of 10 “All-America” cities.
Housing authority and city leaders held the celebration late Tuesday afternoon at the rebuilt Mill River Crossing Housing development on Grand Avenue hard by I‑91.
The event commemorated the selection of New Haven as one of the annual 10 “All-America City” award winners chosen by the National Civic League. This year the league focused on how families, city governments, and private entities work together. New Haven won with an application detailing how the housing authority (aka Elm City Communities or ECC) works with 26 local organizations to offer job training, food, tutoring, safe streets, and fun activities to low-income families. Or, as the authority put it, how it runs programs based in public housing developments that offer“positive social-emotional and educational development geared toward developing self-sufficient adults.