Make the Road is calling for state and federal changes to housing policy, including the creation of a state agency to oversee the acquisition of land to form affordable housing and federally prohibiting hedge funds from owning single family rentals.

The relocation is to make way for a nine-story parking garage and retail space that will serve Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Three of the four homes were constructed in the late 19th century.

Two places in Connecticut, Hartford and New Haven, beat New York City in U.S News and World Report’s ranking of the 25 most expensive places to live.

Weeks after a call to action by residents concerned about proposed rent hikes, East Lyme's Board of Selectmen voted to form a Fair Rent Commission.

One of the main focuses was to look into ways to increase affordable housing accessibility for middle- and low-income families.

The advocacy group is calling on state representatives to crack down on corporate landlords accused of rent gouging. One of the goals is to establish rent caps and invest in affordable tenant-owned, green housing.

There are protections against excessive rent increases for elderly and disabled renters. For communities without commissions, residents have few options: file a lawsuit against the landlord, or petition the municipality to form a Fair Rent Commission.

Tenants of an apartment complex in Niantic are calling out management for proposing rent hikes of up to $900. Of Windward Village’s 60 apartments, about 40 are rented by tenants who are seniors and disabled.

Providers and experts say that people are staying in shelters in Connecticut for longer periods of time, there are scant shelter beds, and a lack of affordable housing makes it hard for people to exit homelessness. The homeless population went up 13% in a year.

Pacific House, a men’s only shelter in Stamford, is addressing Connecticut’s affordable housing crisis by renovating older homes and making them habitable for homeless residents.

State child welfare advocates are reinvigorating a call to bring back the expanded federal child tax credit. The federal child tax credit, expanded during the pandemic, was created to provide financial relief for low- and middle-income families.

Two largely underutilized parking lots, owned by the city, in the area of State Street, will be converted to roughly 450 apartments. A quarter of the apartments will be affordable.