A standoff over a proposal to build multifamily housing on a 1.5 acre residential property in Woodbridge has broad implications for zoning laws in other towns across Connecticut — a state with the 10th-highest housing wage in the U.S., according to the National Low Income Housing Commission, and where the average two-bedroom rental has a fair market rate of $1,374 per month.

Designed to provoke a wider debate about race, income inequality, exclusion and fair housing in wealthy Connecticut towns — some of which could be addressed by the state legislature this year — the contested proposal also points to the hypocrisy of many white suburban residents, some of whom demonstrated against racial injustice at Black Lives Matter rallies last summer but consistently vote down affordable housing projects in their towns.

Multifamily housing fight in Woodbridge could have broad implications for zoning in Connecticut, Michael Hamad, Hartford Courant, Jan. 18th, 2020, available here