Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-358 — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 138b / Section 8-358
Sec. 8-358. Rental payments. Regulations.
Status: in_force

(b) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 (1) defining adjusted monthly income, (2) establishing criteria for determining the utility allowance of a person or family, (3) establishing criteria for determining which projects shall be eligible for financial assistance under sections 8-356 and 8-357 and (4) establishing procedures for the operation of the programs under said sections.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-208c — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 133 / Section 8-208c
Sec. 8-208c. Urban revitalization pilot program. Goals. Reports.
Status: in_force

(b) The goal of the program shall be to increase homeownership in targeted neighborhoods containing high proportions of one-to-four family homes, giving priority to promoting owner-occupancy in buildings that are for sale, vacant, deteriorated, in foreclosure, bank-owned or investor-owned. The program administrator shall target neighborhoods in which concentrated resources can have a substantial impact on revitalizing and stabilizing the surrounding community. The program administrator shall recruit community stakeholders to provide active support for the program, including local banks, local boards of realtors, neighborhood revitalization zone committees, community-based organizations, community development financial institutions and similar entities. The program administrator shall, as necessary to accomplish program goals:

(1) Draw on diverse public and private funding sources and programs, including foundations, local loan funds and programs administered by departments or agencies other than the Department of Housing, including the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, and use public funds to leverage private resources;

(2) Provide financing or investment to support property purchase, rehabilitation, construction, demolition, energy efficiency and aesthetic improvements, including provision of financial products that promote homeownership, such as down payment assistance, and identify other financial resources to support such activities;

(3) Offer incentives to investors to develop tenants into owners, apply income restrictions to housing units in order to ensure affordability, and conduct energy efficiency improvements in order to meet weatherization goals;

(4) Identify and coordinate access for program participants to rental assistance and foreclosure prevention resources and to other resources that will increase homeownership, stabilize or decrease occupancy costs and stabilize neighborhoods;

(5) Provide assistance to individuals who are or who will become homeowners and to nonprofit and for-profit entities that will purchase and rehabilitate properties to sell to individuals who will become homeowners;

(6) Provide support services for program participants who are or who will become homeowners so as to maximize the likelihood of their success in maintaining homeownership on a long-term basis, including training in skills necessary to be an effective landlord and assistance in resolving problems that may arise after closing on a home;

(7) Identify and structure incentives to encourage participation in the program by lenders, investors and developers with a goal of promoting homeownership; and

(8) Assist program participants in locating purchase financing and counseling before and after any purchase and direct such participants to programs that provide deferred, low or no interest or forgivable loans, including the Rental Housing Revolving Loan Fund established pursuant to section 8-37vv .

(c) Any person who receives assistance through the program established by this section to purchase a home shall agree (1) to occupy such home or a unit in such home as such person's primary residence for not less than five years, or (2) to transfer such home to a person who will agree to occupy such home or a unit in such home as such person's primary residence for not less than five years. Priority for participation in the program may be given to persons who will become first-time homebuyers and to persons who are living in a neighborhood targeted by the program.

(d) The Commissioner of Housing shall establish the parameters of the program not later than October 1, 2012, and shall designate one or more municipalities to participate in the program not later than January 1, 2013. The commissioner, in accordance with section 11-4a , shall submit the following to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing: (1) A status report on the program not later than February 1, 2013; (2) an interim report on the program not later than January 1, 2014; and (3) a final report on the program not later than January 1, 2015.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-244b — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 134 / Section 8-244b
Sec. 8-244b. Establishment of State Housing Authority.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, no officer or employee of this state shall be deemed to have forfeited or shall forfeit his office or employment by reason of his acceptance of membership on the board of directors of the SHA or his services thereon.

See Sec. 8-121(e) re limited continuing function of Connecticut Housing Authority.

See Sec. 32-1k for definitions.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-26d — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 126 / Section 8-26d
Sec. 8-26d. Hearings and decisions.
Status: in_force

Cited. 181 C. 243. Where plaintiff company claimed it was entitled to a certificate of approval for a subdivision plan by operation of law on commission's failure to act within time allowed by section, request for writ of mandamus was denied when court determined that plaintiff had withdrawn its original application. 187 C. 232. Cited. 193 C. 387; 196 C. 676; 219 C. 303; 222 C. 269; Id., 380; Id., 912; 225 C. 432.

Cited. 1 CA 621; 6 CA 34; Id., 284; 7 CA 684; 8 CA 556; 27 CA 443; 35 CA 599; 37 CA 348.

Cited. 39 CS 306.

Former Subsec. (c):

Statute creates two alternative trigger dates for commencement of the applicable time period. 256 C. 674.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-154b — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 130 / Section 8-154b
Sec. 8-154b. Bond issues.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 8-226 re use of bonds issued under authority of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-242 — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 134 / Section 8-242
Sec. 8-242. Declaration of policy.
Status: in_force

Broad provisions of statute cannot be interpreted to eliminate authority under Sec. 8-253a(1) to grant or withhold consent to prepayment of loan because an affordable housing developer may obtain a more favorable mortgage rate from a private lender. 281 C. 277.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-359d — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 138b / Section 8-359d
Sec. 8-359d. (Formerly Sec. 17b-806). Homefinders program.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Housing may adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to carry out the purposes of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-43 — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 128 / Section 8-43
Sec. 8-43. Removal of commissioners; subpoenas.
Status: in_force

Cited. 208 C. 161; 213 C. 354; 216 C. 112.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-208 — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 133 / Section 8-208
Sec. 8-208. State grants-in-aid for housing code enforcement.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 8-226 re use of prior bond proceeds for purposes of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-336o — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 137e / Section 8-336o
Sec. 8-336o. Housing Trust Fund.
Status: in_force

(b) Any moneys held in the Housing Trust Fund may, pending the use or application of the proceeds thereof for an authorized purpose, be (1) invested and reinvested in such obligations, securities and investments as are set forth in subsection (f) of section 3-20 and in participation certificates in the Short Term Investment Fund created under sections 3-27a and 3-27f , (2) deposited or redeposited in such bank or banks at the direction of the Treasurer, or (3) invested in participation units in the combined investment funds, as defined in section 3-31b . Unless otherwise provided pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, proceeds from investments authorized by this subsection shall be credited to the Housing Trust Fund.

(c) The moneys of the Housing Trust Fund shall be used to fund the Housing Trust Fund program established under section 8-336p and are in addition to any other resources available from state, federal or other entities that support the program goals established in said section 8-336p .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-132a — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 130 / Section 8-132a
Sec. 8-132a. Determination of equities of parties in deposit or compensation.
Status: in_force

(b) If the court appoints a judge trial referee, such judge trial referee, after giving at least ten days' notice to the parties interested of the time and place of hearing, shall hear the applicant and any parties interested, take such testimonies as such judge trial referee deems material and determine the equities of the parties having a record interest in such moneys and forthwith report to the court. Such report shall contain a detailed statement of findings by the judge trial referee, sufficient to enable the court to determine the considerations upon which the judge trial referee based his conclusions. The court shall review the report, and may reject it for any irregular or improper conduct in the performance of the duties of such judge trial referee. If the report is rejected, the court may appoint another judge trial referee to make such determination and report. If the report is accepted, such determination of the equities shall be conclusive upon all parties given notice of such hearing, subject to appeal to the Appellate Court.

(c) If the court does not appoint a judge trial referee, the court, after giving at least ten days' notice to the parties interested of the time and place of hearing, shall take such testimony as it deems material and determine the equities of the parties having a record interest in such moneys. The finding of the court and such determination of the equities shall be conclusive upon all parties given notice of such hearing, subject to appeal to the Appellate Court.

(d) If no appeal to the Appellate Court is filed within the time allowed by law, or if one is filed and the proceedings have terminated in a final judgment determining the amount due to each party, the clerk shall send a certified copy of the statement of compensation and of the judgment to the redevelopment agency, which shall, upon receipt thereof, pay such parties the amount due them as compensation. The pendency of any such application for review shall not prevent or delay whatever action is proposed with regard to such property by the project area redevelopment plan.

Cited. 155 C. 46; 163 C. 12; 168 C. 135.

Cited. 1 CA 20; 4 CA 271; 23 CA 554.

Cited. 35 CS 157.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-5 — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 124 / Section 8-5
Sec. 8-5. Zoning board of appeals. Alternate members.
Status: in_force

(b) The zoning board of appeals of any town shall have jurisdiction over that part of the town outside of any city or borough contained therein except that the legislative body of any city or borough may, by ordinance, designate the zoning board of appeals of the town in which such city or borough is situated as the zoning board of appeals of such city or borough.

See Sec. 9-1 for applicable definitions.

See Sec. 9-209 re certification of terms of office and number of members of planning and zoning boards or commissions.

Cited. 123 C. 264. Board of appeals acts in a quasi-judicial capacity as distinguished from zoning commission. 145 C. 592. Cited. 148 C. 33; 165 C. 185; 219 C. 352.

Cited. 33 CA 281. Local zoning regulation, which mirrors statute, confers only specific narrowly defined powers on the chairman and in this case chairman was not authorized to act on behalf of board as to any substantive matter such as termination of disposition of an appeal. 69 CA 230.

Compared with number 305 of special acts of 1931. 10 CS 194.

Subsec. (a):

Unseated alternate zoning board member is precluded from participating in board deliberations following the close of a public hearing. 127 CA 669.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-280 — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 135 / Section 8-280
Sec. 8-280. State grants-in-aid. Conditions.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Housing shall not provide a grant-in-aid pursuant to subsection (a) of this section to any town, city or borough for the cost of carrying out a program of relocation assistance for persons displaced as the direct result of code enforcement activities undertaken by a town, city or borough, unless such town, city or borough (1) places, pursuant to section 8-270 , a lien on all real property in such town, city or borough, which is owned by the landlord of the persons who are displaced by such code enforcement activities, and (2) assigns to the state the claim of the town, city or borough against such landlord for the costs of carrying out such program of relocation assistance. The Attorney General shall be responsible for collecting such claim and may carry out such responsibility by (A) enforcing any such lien assigned to the state by the town, city or borough, (B) placing and enforcing a lien on any other real property owned by the landlord in the state, or (C) instituting civil proceedings in the Superior Court against such landlord. Two-thirds of all funds collected by the Attorney General from a landlord pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited in the General Fund and the remaining one-third of such funds shall be remitted to the town, city or borough which brought code enforcement activities against such landlord.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-265cc — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 134 / Section 8-265cc
Sec. 8-265cc. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) “Aggregate family income” means the total income of adult persons residing in the same household as the homeowner and any other adult resident of the household, from whatever source derived, including, but not limited to, pensions, annuities, retirement benefits and Social Security benefits, provided the authority may exclude from income (A) reasonable allowances for dependents; (B) reasonable allowances for medical expenses; (C) income not regularly received; and (D) such other expenses as the authority may allow;

(2) “Authority” means the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority created under section 8-244 ;

(3) “Mortgage” means a mortgage deed or other instrument which constitutes a first or second consensual lien, including a reverse mortgage or a home equity conversion mortgage, on residential real property;

(4) “Mortgagee” means the original lender under a mortgage, or its agents, successors or assigns;

(5) “Mortgagor” means a homeowner who is also the borrower under a mortgage encumbering such real property;

(6) “Housing expense” means the sum of the homeowner's monthly maintenance expense in a common interest community, hazard insurance payment, taxes and required mortgage payment, including escrows;

(7) “Financial hardship due to circumstances beyond the homeowner's control” means a significant reduction of aggregate family household income or increase in expenses which reasonably cannot be or could not have been alleviated by the liquidation of assets by the homeowner as determined by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, including, but not limited to, a reduction resulting from (A) (i) unemployment or underemployment of one or more of the homeowners; (ii) a loss, reduction or delay in receipt of such federal, state or municipal benefits as Social Security, supplemental security income, public assistance and government pensions; (iii) a loss, reduction or delay in receipt of such private benefits as pension, disability, annuity or retirement benefits; (iv) divorce or a loss of support payments; or (v) disability, illness or death of a homeowner; or (B) (i) a significant increase in the dollar amount of the periodic payments required by the mortgage; (ii) an unanticipated rise in housing expenses; or (iii) expenses related to the disability, illness or death of a member of the homeowner's family, but does not include expenses related to the accumulation of credit or installment debt incurred for recreational or nonessential items prior to the occurrence of the alleged circumstances beyond the homeowner's control;

(8) “Consumer credit counseling agency” means a nonprofit corporation or governmental agency located in this state which has been designated by the authority to provide homeowners' emergency mortgage assistance program counseling. A qualified consumer credit counseling agency must either be certified as a housing counseling agency by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development or otherwise determined accepted by the authority;

(9) “Foreclosure mediation program” means the Ezequiel Santiago Foreclosure Mediation Program established pursuant to section 49-31m ;

(10) “Periodic payments” means principal, interest, taxes, insurance and, if applicable, condominium fees;

(11) “Lien” means debt secured by a lien on residential real property pursuant to section 7-239 , 7-254 , 7-258 or 47-258 or chapter 205;

(12) “Lienholder” means the original lienor of a lien, or its agents, successors or assigns;

(13) “Homeowner” means the owner-occupant of residential real property; and

(14) “Residential real property” means one-to-four family owner-occupied residential real estate located in this state, including, but not limited to, a single-family unit in a common interest community.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-129a — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 130 / Section 8-129a
Sec. 8-129a. Apportionment and abatement of taxes on acquisition of property.
Status: in_force

Cited. 155 C. 399; 168 C. 135.

Cited. 1 CA 20; 2 CA 355; 4 CA 271.

Cited. 35 CS 157.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-220 — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 133 / Section 8-220
Sec. 8-220. State grants-in-aid for developing and updating municipal plans of development; contracts for may be entered into by Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. Advances of funds and contracts by Commissioner of Housing for surveys, planning and research.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Housing may in his discretion make advances of funds to any municipality, housing authority or human resource development agency as defined in section 17b-852 for up to seventy-five per cent of the costs, as approved by the commissioner, of surveys and planning in preparation of any project, program or activity for which state financial assistance is provided under this chapter and sections 8-44a , 8-154a and 47a-56j and the contracts for such advances of funds shall require that such advances shall be credited against any subsequent grants-in-aid of such project, program or activity, or shall be repaid to the state if funds for the purposes of this subsection are received from a source other than the state.

(c) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a housing authority or two or more housing authorities acting jointly for technical assistance and financial assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid not to exceed two-thirds of the cost of conducting housing surveys and research as approved by the commissioner and as authorized in chapter 128.

See chapter 50 re Office of Policy and Management.

See Sec. 8-226 re use of prior bond proceeds for purposes of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-18 — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 126 / Section 8-18
Sec. 8-18. Definitions.
Status: in_force

Definition of subdivision and resubdivision discussed. 146 C. 570. Cited. 149 C. 630. There is no authority for commission to adopt as a regulation definition of “subdivision” which modifies, restricts or enlarges upon statutory definition. 151 C. 450. Cited. 172 C. 60; 219 C. 303; 222 C. 216; Id., 294; 227 C. 601. Appropriate inquiry under section is whether one lot has been divided into 3 or more units, not whether topography of lot is maintained or the degree of lot line adjustment. 330 C. 502.

Cited. 5 CA 509; 8 CA 556; 18 CA 159; 20 CA 462; 23 CA 75; 29 CA 28. A map is not a resubdivision unless it alters a “subdivision”. 173 CA 256. The mere changing of lot lines or adding additional land to lots, no matter how sizeable, does not constitute a “subdivision”; Legislature intended the word “parts” to refer to separate but whole, not fractional, members of a tract of land, thus, when the word “parts” is read in light of its commonly approved usage and together with the definition of “resubdivision” under this section, its meaning is plain and unambiguous, and is to be read together with the word “lots” so as to clarify the latter's meaning. 199 CA 115.

Cited. 43 CS 508.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-218h — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 133 / Section 8-218h
Sec. 8-218h. Task force on building accessibility. Annual report to General Assembly.
Status: in_force

(b) The task force shall report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, pursuant to this subsection, to the General Assembly and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public safety on or before January first annually.

(c) The task force shall: (1) Advise the housing development corporation administering the program established under subsection (d) of section 8-218 ; (2) study the feasibility of other funding sources for grants for the conversion of adaptable living units into units accessible to persons with disabilities and for conversion of such units back to adaptable living units; and (3) develop a plan to establish and maintain the registry of adaptable units prepared by said task force.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-286c — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 136 / Section 8-286c
Sec. 8-286c. Amount of guarantee. Record of payments to honor guarantees.
Status: in_force

(b) The guarantee shall secure the mortgagee up to the amount of the guarantee for any loss incurred by the mortgagee because of default of the mortgagor, including losses in principal balance, interest and fees and expenses due to foreclosure.

(c) The commissioner shall maintain a record of payments made to honor loan guarantees issued under the provisions of sections 8-286 , 8-289 and 8-286b to 8-286d , inclusive.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-346 — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 138a / Section 8-346
Sec. 8-346. (Formerly Sec. 17b-814). Rental assistance for low-income families living in newly created rental housing. Pilot program. Regulations.
Status: in_force

(b) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with the owner or developer of new rental housing to provide rental assistance linked to a specific number of units in such housing which shall be set aside for low-income families. Each contract to provide rental assistance for units set aside for occupancy by low-income families under this section shall be for a period not to exceed fifteen years and may provide that the state shall receive an equity interest in such rental housing. The commissioner shall not provide rental assistance for more than five hundred new rental housing units under the pilot program.

(c) The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the purposes of this section. Such regulations shall establish maximum income eligibility guidelines for such rental assistance and criteria for determining the amount of rental assistance which shall be provided.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-347a — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 138a / Section 8-347a
Sec. 8-347a. (Formerly Sec. 17b-805). Assessment and mediation program.
Status: in_force

(b) After evaluation of the causes of the risk of becoming homeless or the imminent danger of eviction or foreclosure and after attempting mediation, the commissioner shall assist eligible participants with application to appropriate resources.

(c) No family shall be eligible for grants under the rent bank program established under section 8-347 without prior referral to the assessment and mediation program.

(d) The commissioner may enter into regional contracts with local or regional nonprofit corporations or social service organizations having expertise in landlord-tenant mediation to implement the program established under this section.

(e) The Commissioner of Housing may adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to carry out the purposes of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-1b — Connecticut Code / Title 8 / Chapter 124 / Section 8-1b
Sec. 8-1b. Alternate members of zoning commission or combined planning and zoning commission.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 8-19a re alternate members of planning commission.

Cited. 168 C. 20.