Erin Boggs, executive director of Open Communities Alliance, began researching for the group's signature "Fair Share" housing proposal in 2014.

Peter Harrison, Connecticut director of the Regional Plan Association, has been advocating for transit-oriented development in the state for about five years and has pushed a specific "Work, Live, Ride" concept for the past three.

House Majority Leader Jason Rojas, D-East Hartford, has made housing his signature issue in one legislative session after another, negotiating with colleagues who often required significant convincing.

All three, therefore, might have been entitled to a victory lap Monday as Gov. Ned Lamont held a ceremonial bill-signing for the most significant housing legislation Connecticut has seen in decades. And yet not one of them was quite ready to declare victory.

"The way this law is written, the devil is in the details," Boggs said, stressing that the new law's success, or lack thereof, will come down to implementation.

For advocates, newly signed CT housing bill is a culmination, but also just the start, Alex Putterman, CT Insider, Dec. 8, 2025, available here