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Affordble Housing Burden Still Falls On Poorest Cities

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Eugene J. Patron
23 November 2004 - 12:00pm

Richest quarter of the state's cities are the site of only about one-twentieth of all affordable units.

In 1989, the Connecticut legislature passed an affordable housing appeals law intended to pry open the gates that affluent towns often erect against housing for working-class and poor people. But 15 years later, an analysis based on state housing and federal census data suggests the law has failed to forge significant progress:

Full Story: Affordable' Still Not Equal
Source: The Hartford Courant, November 21, 2004
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