Housing committee advances broad housing, homelessness concept as members press for details

The Connecticut Housing Committee conducted a roll-call on a concept titled “An act concerning housing, homelessness, and the rental assistance program,” and held votes open until after the committee’s public hearing, after committee members pressed leaders for more detail and said they would withhold final approval without fuller draft language.

Committee chair (unnamed) outlined potential provisions that could appear in the eventual draft, including creation and funding of an affordable-housing real estate investment trust; a housing grant program modeled on an Arizona program to help house people recently experiencing homelessness or formerly incarcerated people; funding for Habitat for Humanity and for sewer and water infrastructure grants to municipalities; a statewide one-acre minimum lot-size requirement for residential zoning;…