CT Public | By: Abigail Brone
Zoning was at the heart of a conversation in Stamford on how to increase Connecticut’s housing affordability.
One of the main focuses was to look into ways to increase affordable housing accessibility for middle- and low-income families…
“It is every community’s responsibility for the provision of low-income and moderate-income housing, and multi-family housing in the zoning regulations, and to do so looking at the regional need for that housing, not the local need,” Ghio said. “Every community in this state has a significant population of folks that are barely making it, that are spending more than half their income on housing, and your state is failing you by not addressing it.”
The issue of communities not fulfilling their zoning obligations is particularly felt in Fairfield County, leaving Stamford to pick up slack, Ghio said.