HARTFORD, Conn. – When the weather warms up in Connecticut, Clarence Braun and his wife, Holly, park their Mercury Grand Marquis in the shade or ride around with the windows down trying to cool off.

"My AC is broken. I just drive if I can find some shade," Braun said.

He has lived out of the car for more than two years. But when it gets really hot, he seeks out some air conditioned relief.

"There's certain spots [that] got a little AC here. McDonald's, they got AC if you really need to cool down. You know, they don't much like it, but they allow it for a little bit," Braun said.

On a 92-degree summer day in July, Braun, wearing a short-sleeve red polo and his hair pulled back in a ponytail, visited the Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance in Hartford, a city-activated cooling center tha

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