The bills are still “a work in progress,” legislators said.
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Posted inEconomic Development
Data suggests dozens of towns are violating CT Supreme Court decision on exclusionary zoning
The study by Desegregate CT was released as lawmakers, who are divided over zoning reforms, prepare to tackle the issue.
Posted inNews
Best of 2020: Connecticut has an opportunity to tackle housing segregation. It appears to be taking a pass.
With thousands of residents pouring into the streets this month to protest racism, some saw an opportunity to tackle segregation.
Posted inPolitics
Not just Trump. Connecticut Republicans make suburban zoning an election issue.
The message: urban cities would take over housing development in suburban towns if Democrats are elected.
Posted inHousing, Investigations
Connecticut has an opportunity to tackle housing segregation. It appears to be taking a pass.
With thousands of residents pouring into the streets this month to protest racism, some saw an opportunity to tackle segregation.
Posted inHousing
Connecticut House weakens, then passes affordable housing bill
The House of Representatives voted 76-72 Tuesday to approve and send to the Senate an affordable-housing bill sought by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to push two dozen Connecticut communities to end their prohibition on multi-family housing. The bill was stripped of financial penalties before passage.
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A half century after Fair Housing Act: ‘We are segregated’
President Lyndon Johnson signed the federal Fair Housing Act on April 11, 1968. Fifty years later, discriminatory lending and rental practices persist, as the Connecticut Fair Housing Center discovered sending fair-housing testers out to pose as renters or homebuyers over three years ending in 2015. Our Sunday conversation is with Erin Kemple, an attorney who lives in an integrated Hartford neighborhood and is executive director of the center.