affordable housing

A regional affordable housing plan for some of the wealthiest communities in Connecticut could allow towns to pay a fee and count housing units in neighboring towns toward their affordability goals, a move that critics say could worsen segregation.

Plans are underway to improve the water quality of Long Island Sound.

Judge Marshall Berger found that the commission’s reasoning for its conditions did not outweigh the need for affordable housing nor did it have proper standing to limit the height of the building.

One project, in the Dixwell neighborhood, would offer more than 50 affordable housing units.

The pandemic slowed the production of new housing in Connecticut, but new residential construction, particularly of multifamily housing, has lagged in the state for years.

Fewer students are going to public colleges in New York this fall.

Eight homeless and recently homeless households received the first of 24 vouchers in the Town of Brookhaven as part of the Biden administration’s first round of emergency housing vouchers made available during the pandemic.

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A Long Island environmental fund is getting a long overdue audit. Connecticut lacks affordable housing outside of its cities, fighting West Nile virus on…

Affordable housing has become more available in Connecticut’s cities — but not as much in small towns, according to a report on nearly two decades of…