Resources

The Center for Housing Opportunity and our partners develop and deliver tools to help planners, policymakers and citizens create data-driven housing solutions for Fairfield, Litchfield, New London, Tolland, and Windham Counties in Connecticut. These include reports, databases, fact sheets and more.

Additional Resources

Community Well-Being Index

The Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index is the first comprehensive community indicators program for Fairfield County, covering individual cities and neighborhoods throughout the area. The Index is a core community indicators program of DataHaven.

Fairfield County COVID-19 Resiliency Fund

Fairfield County’s Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Resiliency Fund is rapidly deploying resources to trusted, frontline community organizations that meet the basic needs of local residents in Fairfield County. 

Fourth Regional Plan

Regional Plan Association’s long-range regional plan for the New York Metropolitan region includes 16 recommendations that seek to address affordability and housing issues by addressing underlying shortcomings in the region’s governance structures.

The Color of Law

Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America speaks about the complicated history of segregation in the US, and how and why our communities have become racially segregated, during Pace University Land Use Law Center’s annual conference.

Local Housing Solutions

Resources to help cities, towns, and counties develop comprehensive and balanced local housing strategies that enhance affordability, protect low-income residents from displacement, and foster inclusive neighborhoods.

Opportunity Starts at Home

A long-term, multi-sector campaign to meet the rental housing needs of the nation’s low-income people.

National Low Income Housing Coalition

Resources to achieve socially just public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes in the US have affordable and decent homes.