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Stories about buying and renting a home in Connecticut: Zoning laws, evictions, affordable housing and housing discrimination.
Updated at 3:27 p.m.
Malloy, in a three-page veto message, said the legislation would perpetuate the harmful effects of bad economic policy and institutional segregation. It is Malloy’s first veto of the session.
The monitor’s latest bi-annual review of the care provided by the Department of Children and Families showed that more than 40 percent of children in sampled cases did not have all their needs met. In about a third of the cases, needs went unmet for at least six months.
Advocates fighting to bring an end to homelessness altogether say their once-seemingly unrealistic goal may at last be reachable in Connecticut, a state that not long ago was a laggard nationally but has emerged as a model.
Nationwide, single-family home prices have recouped the stark losses sustained during the Great Recession — not so in Connecticut.
The market is changing. Families are smaller. Young people are happy, at least for a time, to rent an apartment in a walkable, interesting city or town center. Many Boomers are looking to downsize. And for a quarter century, state officials have been trying to inject more affordable housing into more communities.
