“The good news is there’s $20 million a year for remediation,” said Lyle Wray, executive director of the Capitol Region Council of Governments. “Obviously, homeowners are impatient and want to get going.”
Housing
Stories about buying and renting a home in Connecticut: Zoning laws, evictions, affordable housing and housing discrimination.
Posted inEconomic Development, Housing
Ortiz: Puerto Rico facing long, challenging recovery — bravely
Jason Ortiz, president of the Connecticut Puerto Rican Agenda, knows how badly Puerto Rico was damaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and how important the territory has been to the rest of the United States. He has strong feelings about what it will take to rebuild the island; and in this Sunday Conversation told us how the crisis has brought Puerto Ricans here and on the island together as a people.
Posted inHousing
Gap between buying and renting a home in CT widens
WASHINGTON — The median cost of keeping a roof over one’s head in Connecticut has been coming down in recent years for homeowners but rising for renters, widening an affordability gap between those who own their homes and those who don’t.
Posted inHousing, Politics
As state loosens affordable housing rules, Milford does the same
Updated Monday at 3:54 p.m.
MILFORD — Twenty-two days after the General Assembly voted to loosen the state’s affordable housing standards despite the governor’s objections, at least one community is following suit.
Posted inHousing
New Haven candidates clash on housing, immigration
Gentrification and immigration were two hot subjects over the weekend when Democratic mayoral candidates Marcus Paca and incumbent Mayor Toni Harp met in a pre-election “forum.”
Posted inHousing, Politics
A victory on Vine Street amid worries about Trump’s budget
Hattie Harris spoke last, slowly rising off a folding chair after the mayor and governor each said their piece Friday afternoon, warning that President Trump’s budget cuts could undo Connecticut’s elimination of chronic homelessness and Hartford’s smaller victories, like the one on the block where Miss Hattie has lived since the president was Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Posted inHousing, Politics
Legislature musters enough votes to override Malloy housing veto
The General Assembly dealt a blow to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s housing agenda Monday after legislators voted narrowly to override his veto of a bill that loosens the state’s affordable housing standards.
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Southwestern CT housing prices strain owners and renters
Rents in Fairfield County are among the highest in the nation, with median rents higher than those in the New York and Boston metro areas.
Posted inHousing, Money, Politics
Malloy uses looming housing fallout to heighten budget urgency
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy began showcasing the potential fallout from the state’s budget standoff Monday at The Lyceum in Hartford, where he held a roundtable on looming setbacks in the fight to end homelessness.
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Malloy vetoes looser affordable housing rules, may face override vote
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.
Posted inEducation, Health, Housing, Money
Federal monitor: Too many foster children’s needs still unmet
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.
Posted inHousing
Homelessness fell 24% in three years. How did Connecticut do it?
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.
Posted inHousing
Latest House Price Index: Connecticut growth continues to lag
Nationwide, single-family home prices have recouped the stark losses sustained during the Great Recession — not so in Connecticut.
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Housing shift: More apartments, fewer McMansions
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.