Per a 2017 state law, all cities and towns must submit plans for providing enough housing in their jurisdictions, but a lack of clarity and enforcement mechanisms gives the law little real power.
According to an article by Alex Putterman in The Register Citizen, 11 Connecticut cities failed to meet the state’s deadline to submit affordable housing plans. “Under a state law passed in 2017, towns and cities must submit affordable housing plans to the state at least once every five years and post them publicly online. The plans must ‘specify how the municipality intends to increase the number of affordable housing developments in the municipality,’ the law states.”
However, the law doesn’t include penalties for jurisdictions that don’t comply. “The law also provides few details on how towns should create their plans or how much affordable housing the plans should seek to generate, leading to wide variance in depth and quality from one town to the next.” Some of the 11 towns with missing plans are finalizing their strategies, while others have not committed to adopting a plan at all.
FULL STORY: Two years after deadline, these 11 CT towns still haven't submitted affordable housing plans
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