Abigail Brone
Housing ReporterAbigail is ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø's housing reporter, covering statewide housing developments and issues, with an emphasis on Fairfield County communities. She received her master's from Columbia University in 2020 and graduated from the University of ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø in 2019. Abigail previously covered statewide transportation and the city of Norwalk for Hearst ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Media. She loves all things Disney and cats.
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ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø House of Representatives approved a large housing bill that would encourage affordable housing creation and focuses on key issues including homelessness and transit oriented development. -
A local nonprofit created a guide to help housing advocates understand and navigate state zoning laws. The goal is for them to learn ways to challenge political roadblocks that may help prevent affordable housing creation. -
For the first time, a ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø nonprofit has created new guides detailing how much income it would take to live comfortably in every town and city in Fairfield County. -
A ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø nonprofit is looking into ways to better financially assist at-home day care providers, as 80% of providers surveyed for the study said they didn’t have enough money put away to address any potential emergency facility issues. -
Several former state offices in Hartford will soon be home to more than one hundred families and will include more than 20 affordable apartments. -
A new apartment complex is now open in what used to be the West Hartford Inn. The 44 apartments are all affordable, ranging in price for residents earning between 30% of the area's median income (AMI) to 80% AMI. -
ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø renters are making a final push to urge state lawmakers to expand the just cause eviction law to include any person whose lived for at least a year in a building with five or more units. -
Residents of a veterans housing complex in Newington say the landlord is retaliating against them for forming a union. They say the backlash is coming in the form of eviction threats and bogus rent debts. -
Republican state lawmakers are taking issue with a broad proposed housing bill that would override local laws, boost affordable housing and establish more protections for unhoused people. -
El incremento de los alquileres y de las tasas de interés hipotecarias está ejerciendo presión sobre el mercado de vivienda en el condado de Fairfield. Ante este panorama, los desarrolladores en ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø buscan estrategias para aliviar la carga que enfrentan los arrendatarios de ingresos medios.
