Torrington reviews draft affordable housing plan

Jocelyn Ayer, formerly with the Northwest Hills Council of Governments and now director of the Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity, has worked with 10 towns — including Torrington — to conduct studies, gather public input and examine housing options for individuals and families. Ayer worked on Torrington’s plan with City Planner Jeremy Leifert and a housing committee.

“For this plan, the focus is not all on public housing, or creating new, large developments,” Ayer said. “Our studies focused on the city’s amazing stock of housing, some of which is vacant, or under-utilized. So strategies for using that stock, to make them refurbished, occupied units. Much of our recommendations is to continue to do what the city has been doing, investing in existing buildings that are already there.”

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