Kent adopts housing plan

An eight-member affordable housing steering committee has created a state-mandated Affordable Housing Plan that the Board of Selectmen unanimously voted to adopt at a regular meeting on Thursday, Sept. 15.

Assisting in the process was consultant Jocelyn Ayer, director of the Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity, who reported that she is working with nine area towns as they complete similar affordable housing plans.

Ayer noted the presence of what she called “synergies” with the town’s current Plan of Conservation and Development, finding compatibility between the two documents.

Included among the goals in the housing plan are to expand and preserve affordable housing, to support homebuyer options and to create options for accessory apartments.

“Kent has a really good nonprofit doing great work with affordable housing,” Ayer said, speaking of the ongoing work of Kent Affordable Housing.

Read the full article in The Lakeville Journal.