Fair Share is not a "one-size-fits-all" proposal.

To the contrary, Fair Share is intentionally designed to take local factors into consideration in several ways. First, each town is only participating in meeting the need for affordable housing in its region, so the Windham region is not expected to absorb the need of the Hartford region and the Litchfield region is not expected to host any of the need in the Fairfield region. Second, the regional share is allocated considering each town's individual track record with creating affordable housing and capacity to host more, meaning under Fair Share a town with fewer resources and higher levels of existing affordable units might be expected to grow in affordable units at a rate of .3% a year while a town with lots of resources and virtually no affordability would grow at an annual rate of 1.6%.  Third, within the Fair Share parameters, each town is empowered to do its own planning and zoning to attain its Fair Share goal, so the results are completely individual.