Affordable Housing

The State of Connecticut mandates every municipality to develop an affordable housing plan under C.G.S. §8-30j by June 1, 2022, to specify how they “intend to increase the number of affordable housing developments in the municipality.”  

In lieu of all eighteen municipalities in the Western Connecticut Region duplicating efforts to research, document and analyze affordable housing, the Council of Governments decided to work collectively by splitting the work into two parts:

• Regional Toolbox: CLICK HERE
  The Western Connecticut Regional Affordable Housing Toolbox is written as a resource for municipalities to reference when creating a policy driven Affordable Housing Plan.  It reviews the common challenges municipalities in the region face when adding affordable housing such as the regional housing and employment markets, transportation and infrastructure limitations, and the economics of land availability in the region.
• Bridgewater's Municipal Annex: CLICK HERE
  The Municipal Annex documents the specific strategies that will be used to increase affordable housing and will be adopted by the municipality.