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Land is the most finite of resources, and once local communities lose control over it, we can no longer protect it.

Bullying the residents of Connecticut and pushing for ineffective state mandated zoning legislation will not fix the lack of affordable housing in Connecticut.

Fairfield County is facing a housing crisis that threatens our community’s short- and long-term economic health.

When I made the choice to come to Yale for my master of public health degree, I never expected that I’d end up waiting three hours to testify in a public hearing, let alone in support of a bill establishing the right to housing. As a medical student, I am intimately involved with health at the clinical interface. But what does housing have to do with health?

As a college student in New Haven, where one in four people live below the poverty line, I’m privy to Connecticut’s failure to enact fully effective housing policy every day. Never was this clearer than when I planned a picnic on the Green upon arriving in New Haven.

The frontline workers who care for people experiencing homelessness are themselves vulnerable and at risk because of state underfunding.

Nonprofit Accountability Group is a queer- and trans-led group based in Hartford that is dedicated to creating racial equity by directing resources to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and disabled children and families. NAG was founded in 2020 as an organization with a transformative approach to implementing nonprofit accountability by creating relationships within the community, nonprofits, and their funders.

The high cost of housing not only dampens our ability to increase our tax base by growing our state’s population, it also severely strains existing low- and moderate-income households. Creating more housing and making housing more affordable is the most powerful way to grow our economy.  

Future generations will look back on America’s current homeless crisis and consider it unthinkable that we could leave thousands of our fellow citizens to live on the streets in squalor.

The legislature’s one-size-fits-all reform of zoning laws ignores a physical barrier in rural towns that is expensive to fix– limited public water and sewer service.

In order to ensure everyone in Connecticut has a safe affordable home, housing vouchers should be available to every household that needs one.