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Stories about buying and renting a home in Connecticut’s tight housing market: Zoning laws, evictions, affordable housing and homelessness.
CT sees rise in unhoused children compared to start of school last year
At least 534 children in CT are reported to be experiencing homelessness, according to the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.
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Fazio promises to find a ‘grand bargain’ on housing, zoning reform
Ryan Fazio’s concept of a “grand bargain” includes state-mandated zoning reforms in return for significant revisions to 8-30g and H.B. 8002.
CT joins multistate lawsuit over federal mortgage escrow rules
Lawsuit argues that new rules incorrectly preempt states’ powers to regulate how interest generated by mortgage escrow accounts is handled.
EPA settles with Putnam apartment manager over lead paint
The company that oversaw an apartment complex in Putnam will pay nearly $360,000 for failing to warn tenants about lead paint risks.
Bridgeport’s Steelpointe Harbor project wraps up first residential phase
The project overcame funding challenges and morphed from a luxury development to allotting a certain number of middle-income apartments.
Landmark federal housing law tries new ways to boost local building
Cities—not the federal government—control most development through zoning. The law takes a new approach to nudge them toward more housing.
Lamont pledges eviction reform as tenants, lawmakers condemn corporate landlord
Gov. Ned Lamont joined a group of tenants and lawmakers in Hartford to call on Alpha Capital to improve conditions at its properties.
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