Affordable Housing Alliance of Connecticut

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Affordable Housing Alliance Guiding Principles

  • Housing is the Hub
    • Housing is fundamental to family success, community stability, health outcomes, educational achievement, and economic growth.
    • All of our other efforts aimed at addressing the needs of families and individuals are at risk when the basic need for affordable, quality housing is not fully met.
  • We must target more housing resources to our lowest income families and individuals
    • Data demonstrates a shortage of affordable housing of more than 90,000 units state-wide for extremely low-income households
    • We are facing insurmountable waiting lists, extraordinarily low turn-over rates, “doubling up” and the like.
    • We must target more resources to address this growing shortfall.
  • We must preserve the housing and affordability in our current stock
    • Publicly-assisted housing is a tremendous existing resource in meeting housing need.
    • Yet only 31 of our 169 cities and towns have more than 10% of their stock affordable
    • Our state-sponsored portfolio that once numbered over 17,000 now includes just 14,000 units.
    • We must ensure that, as we are revitalizing this stock, units and affordability are preserved.
  • Everyone has a role to play
    • No one sector can shape the future of housing.
    • Change requires cross-sector coordination to identify barriers, shape solutions and come together to achieve goals.

Welcome to the Affordable Housing Alliance of Connecticut

Founded in 1981, the Affordable Housing Alliance of Connecticut represents the broad, vibrant network of community-based, affordable housing activity across Connecticut. Our more than 250 member organizations include nonprofit developers, housing services agencies, resident associations, and diverse other housing practitioners and advocates.

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New Haven Legal Assistance

"Thank you, Affordable Housing Alliance of Connecticut, for a quarter century of bringing together housing advocates in Connecticut!"

Attorney Amy Eppler-Epstein

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