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."
Roshan Abraham | New York Times
In the late 1960s, Ethel Lawrence and her husband lived with their children in a two-story house on an acre of land in Mount Laurel, N.J. Her family had lived in the township for generations, and she wanted her children to be able to...
Cate Hewitt | CT Examiner
An advocate group is pushing for the state’s “fair share” housing study to be completed by its original December deadline, in time for lawmakers to reintroduce legislation addressing Connecticut’s housing needs next year.
Despite a monthslong delay in finding a contractor, ECOnorthwest, to conduct the...
Ginny Monk | CT Mirror
A report on a controversial statewide zoning reform proposal that would assign each Connecticut town a certain number of housing units to plan and zone for isn’t likely to be finished ahead of the 2025 legislative session following a monthslong delay in finding a contractor...