Gov. Lamont reversed his view on a controversial affordable housing bill that would have required municipalities to zone for set amounts of affordable housing to receive state funding.
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont vetoed a highly anticipated housing bill, claiming it “pushed too far in mandating local zoning changes and lacked adequate support from municipal leaders.”
According to an article by Jonathan Delozier in Housing Wire, “The vetoed legislation — H.B. 5002 — passed in the final days of the legislative session and aimed to increase affordable housing supply through a mix of zoning mandates and incentives.”
One provision would have required towns to reform zoning to accommodate a set number of new affordable housing units, similar to California’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation. “It also included measures to promote transit-oriented development, allow residential conversions of commercial buildings, ban hostile anti-homelessness infrastructure and prevent towns from imposing minimum parking requirements for housing.”
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