As used in sections 8-37bb to 8-37dd, inclusive, “housing agency” means the Department of Housing, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority and the Connecticut Housing Authority, and “income group” means one of the following household groups, adjusted for family size and based on the appropriate area median income established by the United States Department of Housing […]
(a) The Department of Housing shall design and administer a program of grants to owners of eligible housing to pay the cost of a comprehensive physical needs assessment for each eligible housing development. The final design of this program shall be subject to review by the State-Assisted Housing Sustainability Advisory Committee established pursuant to section […]
(a) On or before December 31, 2013, and annually thereafter, each housing agency, except the Department of Housing, shall submit to the General Assembly a report, for the year ending the preceding September thirtieth, which analyzes by income group, households served by its housing construction, substantial rehabilitation, purchase and rental assistance programs. Each report shall […]
(a) Each housing agency, as defined in section 8-37aa, shall, within available resources and to the extent practicable, serve households with incomes less than fifty per cent of the area median income, including households with incomes less than twenty-five per cent of the area median income. In administering its programs each housing agency shall attempt […]
Not more than six months after July 1, 1990, each housing agency shall adopt written policies concerning the extent to which housing assisted by such agency shall be retained on a long-term basis for members of the income group for which the housing was developed. (P.A. 90-257, S. 14, 17; P.A. 95-296, S. 3, 5; […]
(a) Each entity participating in any program administered by a housing agency, as defined in section 8-37aa, under this title shall have an affirmative duty to promote fair housing in each housing development that is assisted or supervised under any provision of this title. (b) Any entity applying for financial assistance under any program administered […]
The Department of Housing shall develop and maintain a comprehensive inventory of all assisted housing, as defined in section 8-30g, in the state. The inventory shall identify all existing assisted rental units by type and funding source, and include, but not be limited to, information on tenant eligibility, rents charged, available subsidies, occupancy and vacancy […]
An aggrieved person authorized by law to request a fair hearing on a decision of the Commissioner of Housing, or the conservator of any such aggrieved person on his or her behalf, may make application for such hearing in writing over his or her signature to the commissioner and shall state in such application in […]
(a) Not later than sixty days after such hearing, the Commissioner of Housing, or the commissioner's designated hearing officer, shall render a final decision based upon all the evidence introduced before him or her and applying all pertinent provisions of law, regulations and departmental policy, and such final decision shall supersede the decision made without […]
(a) The Department of Housing may not approve electric resistance as the primary heat source in new, subsidized housing except where justified by a life-cycle cost analysis whose methodology has been approved by the division of the Office of Policy and Management responsible for energy matters. (b) If the Department of Housing or the Connecticut […]
The Department of Economic and Community Development, the Department of Housing and the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority shall give preference to loans for energy efficient projects in all grant and loan programs. (P.A. 90-219, S. 11; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 20.) History: P.A. 95-250 and P.A. […]
(a) No state financial assistance shall be provided by the Commissioner of Housing for any housing or community development project or by the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development for any economic development project under any program administered by such commissioners unless the commissioner responsible for administering the program has first approved a residential antidisplacement […]
(a) The Commissioner of Housing shall review applications for tax credits submitted to the Department of Housing pursuant to subsection (e) of section 10-416b or subsection (d) of section 10-416c. Upon determination that an application contains affordable housing, the commissioner shall issue a certificate to that effect. The commissioner shall monitor projects certified under this […]
(a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this section, the State Bond Commission shall have the power, from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate thirty million dollars, provided fifteen million dollars of said […]
(a) For purposes of this section, “visitable housing” means one-to-four family residential construction that includes three basic architectural features to allow persons with disabilities to easily visit: (1) Interior doorways that provide a minimum thirty-two inch wide unobstructed opening, (2) an accessible means of egress, as defined in Appendix A to 28 CFR Part 36, […]
(a) There is established an interagency council on affordable housing to advise and assist the commissioner of the Department of Housing in the planning and implementation of the department. (b) The council shall consist of the following members: (1) The Commissioners of Social Services, Mental Health and Addiction Services, Children and Families, Correction, Economic and […]
The Commissioner of Housing may appoint a Deputy Commissioner of Housing who shall be qualified by training and experience for the duties of the office of commissioner and shall, in the absence, disability or disqualification of the commissioner, perform all the functions and have all the powers and duties of said office. The position of […]
(a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Affordable housing” means affordable housing, as defined in section 8-39a; (2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Housing; (3) “Department” means the Department of Housing; (4) “Eligible applicant” means: (A) A nonprofit entity; (B) a municipality; (C) a housing authority; (D) a business corporation incorporated pursuant to chapter 601 […]
(a) For the purposes of this section and sections 8-44a, 8-70, 8-78, 8-80, 8-114a, 8-117b, 8-119a, 8-119b, 8-119h, 8-119i, 8-119ee, 8-119hh, 8-119ii, 8-119jj, 8-169w, 8-214g, 8-216b, 8-218b, 8-219b, 8-387, 8-405, 8-410, 8-420, 16a-40b and 16a-40j, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) “Bond-financed state housing program” means any program administered by the Commissioner […]
(a) Annually, on or before March thirty-first, the Commissioner of Housing shall submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a. Not later than thirty days after submission of the report to the Governor and the General Assembly, said commissioner shall post the report on the […]
