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Hugh Bailey: Zoning bill ‘not an answer, it’s an abdication’ By Hugh Bailey © Provided by Connecticut Post A professor gives a tour of an accessory dwelling unit built by Rice University students to address the need for quality and affordable housing last year in Houston. The result of a months-long push for zoning reform in Connecticut gave both sides reason to declare victory. The reality is the anti-reformers won. They wanted nothing of substance to change, and that’s where we are. Anything that would have started to make a dent in residential segregation in Conne...

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 Mirko | mmirko@courant.com An ambitious plan to begin undoing decades of racial inequity by ushering i...

The Cook County Emergency Rental Assistance Program received more than 16,000 applications by the close of its five week application period, which included a weeklong extension.  As of May 1, Cook County has disbursed just over $8.8 million of the program’s total $73 million. The county is still awarding grants from the program. Applications are being reviewed in a tiered process by Cook County case auditors, according to Cook County Deputy Director of Communication Dunni Cosey Gay. Applicants with household income at or below 50 percent of the area median, who have also experienced 90 or ...