Connecticut lacks housing that allows families at all incomes to thrive, and too many communities are held back by disinvestment and a lack of equitable housing policies. Growing Together CT actively works to generate more housing choices everywhere and partners with under-resourced communities as they combat poverty and work toward equity. Together, these combined strategies will create a stronger, more environmentally sustainable, and equitable Connecticut.
With rapid increases in rent and housing prices, Connecticut faces a housing crisis that is upending thousands of lives, creating family instability, holding children back from reaching their promise, and stunting the state’s economy. The 2024 Growing Together CT policy agenda, plus additional proposals that will advance in 2025, will put us on the road to reversing Connecticut's housing crisis.
1. Address Homelessness
2. Just Cause Eviction
Ensure that rental housing is stable housing where eviction is possible only with a good reason.
3. Housing Growth Fund
Support municipalities helping to solve CT's housing challenges.
4. Leverage Housing Vouchers
Fund voucher programs and set voucher values to allow access to all parts of the state.
5. Sewer Infrastructure Planning & Investments
Make infrastructure investments in municipalities planning for affordability.
"I know from personal experience how hard it can be to reach your potential when structural obstacles are in your way. Our goal should be to make every part of Connecticut a place of opportunity where children and families can thrive."
50 percent of Connecticut’s 470,000 renter households are considered cost-burdened or severely cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than half their income on housing.
Connecticut home prices increased 36 percent between 2020 and 2022, from $250,000 to $340,000.
In 2022, Connecticut only issued 48 percent as many housing permits as it did in 2005.
Connecticut ranked second-to-last in the nation in 2022 with 1.29 new homes built per 1,000 people.
Our conservative estimate of the number of affordable housing units that Connecticut needs is based on the number of extremely low income, severely cost-burdened households
"A thriving community creates more opportunities for everyone. Better schools, more jobs, and wider horizons for the future. Together, we can empower families with more choices about where they live so every child in Connecticut can grow up in a healthy, thriving, and vibrant community."
Ginny Monk | CT Mirror
Housing advocates have a message for state lawmakers: They are tired of waiting for change while thousands of Connecticut residents face housing costs they can’t afford and the prospect of losing their homes.
In a pair of press conferences at the state Capitol on Thursday,...
Susan Raff & Zoe Strothers | WFSB
There isn’t enough to meet the demand, especially affordable housing.
While there are 6 new bills to address the problem, lawmakers have yet to act, and time is running out for anything to get done this session.
Houses for sale don’t stay on...
Jamil Ragland | CT News Junkie
A coalition of advocacy groups urged the legislature Thursday to pass a bill expanding just-cause eviction protections to all residents.
S.B. 143. The bill would expand just-cause eviction protections to all renters in the state.
Representatives from the Connecticut Tenants Union, Make The Road...