Open Communities Alliance is a civil rights organization that works to redress generations of discriminatory actions and policies based on race, ethnicity, and income to create open and inclusive housing opportunities in historically exclusionary communities, and to bring investments and equitable policy change that generate meaningful improvements in under-resourced communities of color. Join us!
In The News
Jan 08, 2025
Housing advocates have joined the fight to prevent the state of Connecticut from approving a moratorium on affordable housing for the town of New Canaan under the state’s decades-old affordable housing law. Open Communities Alliance (OCA), a civil-rights organization that advocates for fair housing, filed an intervenor brief late last...
Jan 06, 2025
With vacancy rates low, rents high, home-ownership out of reach for many residents and homelessness rising year after year, Connecticut clearly has a housing problem. The question, posed annually around this time, is what state lawmakers might do about it. In recent years, Connecticut's legislature has considered sweeping proposals to...
The Housing Record
Jan 15, 2025
As the 2025 legislative session gets underway in Hartford, it’s hard not to have thoughts that wander further south. For while there are big issues to debate in Connecticut, so much of what happens in the coming years will be determined by the new administration soon to take over in...
Dec 17, 2024
The obstacles to building affordable housing can be daunting. Though it’s often towns themselves that present the biggest challenge through exclusionary zoning, sometimes the infrastructure simply isn’t in place to allow for the kind of density that most often leads to affordability. That frequently means sewers. Whether we like to...
