Advocates believe Connecticut is in the midst of a housing crisis. They say the cost of housing at all levels is pricing out renters and potential owners who only a short time ago could afford their homes.

People are forced to move, these advocates say, because the apartment they could afford two years ago has now become far too expensive. For the first time in years, this has increased housing instability and homelessness in Connecticut.

Government-backed affordable housing in Chicago has largely been confined to majority-Black neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty over the last two decades, a design that has perpetuated the city's long history of segregation.

As the neighborhoods faced rising divestment, gun violence and food deserts, the lack of affordable housing in other parts of the city restricted many people of color from leaving.

But now, using its largest pot of federal housing funding, Chicago wants to chart a corrective path by aggressively pushing for more affordable homes in high-income, well-resourced areas, which housing experts say would unlock previously unavailable opportunities for communities of color.

On Wednesday, President Biden announced and outlined the next priority on his legislative agenda: a climate-centered infrastructure bill.

At $2 trillion-plus, the American Jobs Plan is a far-reaching proposal to modernize and transform the built environment and infrastructure of the United States. The scope of it is impressive. The plan would, if passed, provided a total of $115 billion for roads and bridges, $85 billion for public transit, $80 billion for passenger and freight rail and $111 billion for water infrastructure including $45 billion for lead abatement, to prevent another Flint, Mich., or Jackson, Miss.

A crisis of low incomes and a parallel crisis of tight supply.

Matthew Yglesias, Vox, July 30, 2019. Available Here. 

The Power Of Purpose: How Jonathan Rose Is Creating 'Communities Of Opportunity'

Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, April 30, 2019. Full article available here. 

The Struggle to Find Affordable Housing in Hartford

Kenneth Best, UConn Communications, April 17, 2019, Available Here.

Demand for Affordable Housing Far Outstrips the Supply, Emilie Munson, Justin Papp, Mary O’Leary and Hannah Dellinger, CT Post, December 24, 2018, available here

Housing Inequality Can Be Both Cause And Effect Of Poverty In Wealthy CT, Clarice Silber, CT Mirror, Oct. 16, 2018, available here

Elizabeth Warren’s Ambitious Fix for America’s Housing Crisis, Madeleine Carlisle, The Atlantic, Sept. 25, 2018, available here

Connecticut — Newington included — needs more affordable housing, Kathy Flaherty and Ryan Beach, CT Viewpoints, Sept. 5, 2018, available here