Months after deadline, over 50 CT towns still haven't submitted affordable housing plans

More than three and a half months after the deadline for Connecticut towns and cities to submit affordable housing plans to the state, over 50 still have not done so, according to a list maintained by the Office of Policy Management.

The plans, required under a 2017 state law, were initially due June 1, yet as of mid-September only 114 of the state's 169 towns had submitted them, according to OPM. Holdouts included cities such as Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford and Norwalk, as well as large suburbs such as West Hartford, Shelton and Trumbull.

Affordable housing advocates say the failure of so many towns and cities to submit plans demonstrates not only a lack of interest in affordable housing in some communities, but also a weakness in the law, which includes no consequences for municipalities that don't comply.

"That's what happens when we have legislation like this that doesn't necessarily have any teeth in it," said Christie Stewart, director of Fairfield County's Center for Housing Opportunity.

Read the full story in The Register Citizen.