2025 Policy Priorities

All across Connecticut, families are struggling to make ends meet. In 2025, Open Communities Alliance, in partnership with the Growing Together CT consortium of organizations it coordinates, is advancing restorative policies that expand housing choices and support disinvested communities, ensuring sustainable and equitable growth for the residents of Connecticut. Together, these priorities will help Connecticut Build Homes, Keep Homes, and Support Families.

Build Homes 

  • Towns Take the Lead Planning and Zoning: Empower municipalities to plan and zone for housing that is affordable through municipally-tailored unit goals, improved processes, and incentives. 

Led by Open Communities Alliance. Learn more here.

Keep Homes

  • Just Cause Eviction: Expand Just Cause laws to require that landlords have grounds for filing an eviction or refusing to renew a lease. 

Led by CT Fair Housing Center (with partners). Learn more here.

  • Avoid Collateral Consequences in Housing Applications: Prevent old and irrelevant criminal records from keeping housing out of reach. 

Led by the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (with partners). Learn more here.

  • Invest in Homelessness Response: Invest $33.5 million to shore up our homelessness response system. 

Led by Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness through CT CAN End Homelessness. Learn more here.

Support CT Families

  • Guard Against the Benefits Cliff: Ensure that minor income increases don't kick lower income families off of critical state benefit programs. 

Led by Mothers and Others for Justice. Learn more here.

  • Create a Child Tax Credit: Create a $600 tax credit per child. 

Led by CT Voices for Children. Learn more here.

 

 

  • Open Communities Alliance
  • 60 Popieluszko Court
  • 2nd Floor
  • Hartford, CT 06106
  • Phone: 860-610-6040