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By Alexandra Pappas

An ambitious plan to begin undoing decades of racial inequity by ushering in a wave of affordable housing in Woodbridge is likely to be dealt a serious blow next month, when town zoning commissioners are set to vote on a sharply scaled-back version of the proposal. The vast majority of Woodbridge, a largely white community, is made up of single-family homes. A tiny fraction of land permits ...

An ambitious plan to begin undoing decades of racial inequity by ushering in a wave of affordable housing in Woodbridge is likely to be dealt a serious blow next month, when town zoning commissioners are set to vote on a sharply scaled-back version of the proposal. The vast majority of Woodbridge, a largely white community, is made up of single-family homes. A tiny fraction of land permits ...

An attempt to spur racial equity through affordable housing in mainly white Woodbridge likely to be dealt a serious blow Eliza Fawcett, Hartford Courant © Mark Mirko/Mark Mirko Woodbridge, Ct. - 04/29/2021 - An aerial view looking to the northeast of a white, 2 story house on the corner of Orchard Road and Newton Road in Woodbridge shows the site of the Yale Law affordable housing proposal to develop the home into a 4-unit affordable housing development. Photograph by Mark Mi...

Yehyun Kim / CT Mirror Zoning officials in the well-off suburban town of Woodbridge seem unlikely to allow developers to build multi-unit dwellings there without special permission. The request from civil rights attorneys to change the way affordable housing is approved in Woodbridge has become the focus of housing advocates across the state, as what happens in Woodbridge could eventually have widespread ramifications. Convinced the town’s zoning regulations keep low-income residents fro...

Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org A house on the corner of Orchard Rd and Newtown Road in Woodbridge. A proposal has been made to build a four-unit home on this single-family, 1.5-acre lot. Zoning officials in the well-off suburban town of Woodbridge seem unlikely to allow developers to build multi-unit dwellings there without special permission. The request from civil rights attorneys to change the way affordable housing is approved in Woodbridge has become the focus of housing advocates across the s...

Woodbridge officials are weighing whether to allow multi-family housing

Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Mansions are lined up along Oenoke Ridge in New Canaan. The area is zoned for a 4-acre, single-family home. On a sunny spring afternoon in 2016, Richard Freedman went on a bike ride through New Canaan. The housing developer was fresh off a disappointment. He had applied to build housing for low-income people in Westport, but his plan had just been rejected. As he rode through the hillsides that afternoon — where mansions with gated entrances were separated from each...