New CT program prioritizes new affordable housing in Fairfield County

A new state pilot program is helping some Fairfield County communities reach their affordable housing goals.

The capacity building and technical assistance program is a joint venture between the state’s Department of Housing and Fairfield County Center for Housing Opportunity.

Five Fairfield County communities will be selected for the program. The goal is to develop specific affordable housing projects or initiatives to help tackle the need, the center’s Chief Initiative Officer Melissa Kaplan-Macey said.

“The number one ideal outcome is that there are five towns that have five specific actions that they're moving forward that will address affordable housing, that will make more opportunity available for affordable housing, that will have tangible outcomes,” Kaplan-Macey said.

It will assist the communities in developing and strategizing to reach benchmarks set in their affordable housing plans.

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