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"This year, when searching for housing, I explained my record to a potential landlord. As soon as I revealed that part of my past ... that home’s door was closed to me." - Anderson Curtis #SmartJustice

"My experience with housing has pretty much been a mirror of my experience with employment. I have had periods of stability, and periods of uncertainty, with the uncertainty outweighing the stability due to the emotional toll. My experience is not unique." - Anderson Curtis

"In my role as a field organizer, I receive calls that are literally cries for help from people living with a criminal record and people on community supervision who are being denied access to housing." - Anderson Curtis, #SmartJustice field organizer

"With Black and Latino men disproportionately incarcerated, we are disproportionately rejected when we return to our communities and seek to build a life worth living." - Anderson Curtis, #SmartJustice field organizer

"I am not alone. Tens of thousands of Connecticut residents are struggling with this discrimination every day. Because of the isolation and stigma we face, it sometimes feels like we are still serving time, just in a community-based prison." - Anderson Curtis, #SmartJustice