Housing Market

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.

The Community Preservation Fund is supported by a 2% tax on real estate transactions in the five towns that make up eastern Long Island.

It can take over nine years to get a housing voucher in Brookhaven on Long Island. The final stages of the impeachment inquiry into Governor Cuomo,…