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CT Gen Stat § 8-37w (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37w - Model ordinance and procedures for regulation of land development.

 (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall develop and publish a model ordinance and model procedures which may be adopted by municipalities in regulating the development of land, which ordinance and procedures shall provide for: (1) The utilization of a single consolidated application form for use by all municipal agencies having jurisdiction to review and approve such development; (2) coordination of staff review and communications between staff and the applicant; (3) the elimination of separate public hearings by review agencies whenever practicable and if requested by the applicant; and (4) the concurrent running of all applicable time limits for decisions by approval agencies.(b) The Commissioner of Housing shall submit any model ordinances or procedures developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section to the General Assembly for its approval prior to publishing or promulgating any such ordinances or procedures.(P.A. 81-233, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)History: P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37aa (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37aa - Income-grouped housing: Definitions.

 As used in sections 8-37bb to 8-37dd, inclusive, “housing agency” means the Department of Housing, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority and the Connecticut Housing Authority, and “income group” means one of the following household groups, adjusted for family size and based on the appropriate area median income established by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: (1) Households with incomes twenty-five per cent or less than the area median income; (2) households with incomes more than twenty-five per cent but not more than fifty per cent of the area median income; (3) households with incomes more than fifty per cent but not more than eighty per cent of the area median income; (4) households with incomes more than eighty per cent but not more than one hundred per cent of the area median income; and (5) households with incomes more than one hundred per cent of the area median income.(P.A. 90-257, S. 11, 17; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)History: P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Department of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Department of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37cc (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37cc - Housing agencies to serve households with incomes less than fifty per cent of area median income and to promote fair housing choice and racial and economic integration.

 (a) Each housing agency, as defined in section 8-37aa, shall, within available resources and to the extent practicable, serve households with incomes less than fifty per cent of the area median income, including households with incomes less than twenty-five per cent of the area median income. In administering its programs each housing agency shall attempt to serve households in the lower range of the income group for which the housing program was developed.(b) Each housing agency shall affirmatively promote fair housing choice and racial and economic integration in all programs administered or supervised by such housing agency.(P.A. 90-257, S. 13, 17; P.A. 91-362, S. 2.)History: P.A. 91-362 designated existing language as Subsec. (a) and added new Subsec. (b) establishing an affirmative duty for housing agencies to promote fair housing choice and racial and economic integration in their programs.Subsec. (b):Trial court properly determined that there is no private right of action pursuant to Subsec; its purpose is made clear by legislature's placement of directive in an administrative chapter; that purpose is not consistent with an implied right of action, instead legislative directive is linked to strong reporting requirements that enable legislative and executive oversight for compliance. 277 C. 238.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37dd (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37dd - Retention of housing assisted by housing agencies.

 Not more than six months after July 1, 1990, each housing agency shall adopt written policies concerning the extent to which housing assisted by such agency shall be retained on a long-term basis for members of the income group for which the housing was developed.(P.A. 90-257, S. 14, 17; P.A. 95-296, S. 3, 5; P.A. 97-156, S. 2, 3.)History: P.A. 95-296 added new Subsec. (b) re retention of housing in distressed municipalities developed or rehabilitated by community housing development corporations, effective July 6, 1995; P.A. 97-156 deleted Subsec. (b) re retention of housing developed or rehabilitated by community housing development corporations in distressed municipalities and removed Subsec. (a) designator, effective July 1, 1997.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37ee (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37ee - Establishment of affirmative duty for entities participating in programs assisted or supervised by state housing agencies to promote fair housing.

 (a) Each entity participating in any program administered by a housing agency, as defined in section 8-37aa, under this title shall have an affirmative duty to promote fair housing in each housing development that is assisted or supervised under any provision of this title.(b) Any entity applying for financial assistance under any program administered by a housing agency established by this title shall submit an affirmative fair housing marketing plan to such housing agency for its approval. Such plan shall have provisions for recruitment of an applicant pool that includes residents of municipalities of relatively high concentrations of minority populations. The housing agency shall periodically review each plan to assure that to the extent practicable such an applicant pool is created and may require that a plan be revised by the entity submitting it.(P.A. 91-362, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-37ff (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37ff - Maintenance of comprehensive inventory of all assisted housing.

 The Department of Housing shall develop and maintain a comprehensive inventory of all assisted housing, as defined in section 8-30g, in the state. The inventory shall identify all existing assisted rental units by type and funding source, and include, but not be limited to, information on tenant eligibility, rents charged, available subsidies, occupancy and vacancy rates, waiting lists and accessibility features. In order to assist the department in the completion of the inventory, all owners of such housing units, both public and private, shall report accessible housing units to the database established and maintained under section 8-119x.(P.A. 05-239, S. 3; P.A. 13-234, S. 19.)History: P.A. 05-239 effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 13-234 substituted “Department of Housing” for “Department of Economic and Community Development” and deleted “Not later than July 1, 2006,”, effective July 1, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37jj (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37jj - Electric resistance as primary source of heat.

 (a) The Department of Housing may not approve electric resistance as the primary heat source in new, subsidized housing except where justified by a life-cycle cost analysis whose methodology has been approved by the division of the Office of Policy and Management responsible for energy matters.(b) If the Department of Housing or the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority uses electric resistance space heating as the primary heating source in any new construction, it shall construct the unit in such a way as to be eligible for any available energy conservation incentives provided by the electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1, or the municipal utility furnishing electric service to such unit.(P.A. 90-219, S. 10; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2; P.A. 14-134, S. 44.)History: P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Department of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Department of Housing, effective June 19, 2013; P.A. 14-134 amended Subsec. (b) by changing “electric company” to “electric distribution company”, effective June 6, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37kk (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37kk - Preference to loans for energy efficient projects.

 The Department of Economic and Community Development, the Department of Housing and the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority shall give preference to loans for energy efficient projects in all grant and loan programs.(P.A. 90-219, S. 11; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 20.)History: P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; P.A. 13-234 added “the Department of Housing”, effective July 1, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37tt (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37tt - Administrative oversight charges.

 (a) As used in this section, “administrative oversight charge” means any fee payable to the Department of Housing from sources other than (1) the proceeds from the sale of the state's general obligation bonds, or (2) the housing repayment and revolving loan program established pursuant to subsection (e) of section 8-37qq, that is imposed to pay all or a portion of the costs and expenses of the Department of Housing in monitoring facilities developed with financial assistance pursuant to any bond-financed state housing program as defined in subsection (a) of section 8-37qq, and ensuring compliance with requirements and restrictions applicable to such facilities.(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or any regulations adopted thereunder, the amount of the administrative oversight charge per unit shall be as follows: (1) For the period from July 1, 1997, to June 30, 1998, not more than twelve dollars, and (2) on and after July 1, 1998, not more than five dollars.(P.A. 94-156, S. 1, 5; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-189, S. 1, 3; 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 98-154, S. 1, 2; P.A. 06-93, S. 1; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)History: P.A. 94-156 effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; P.A. 96-189 added Subsec. (c) specifying amount of charge per unit, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 98-154 amended Subsec. (c) to delete maximum $7 charge for period from July 1, 1998, to June 30, 1999, to delete provision requiring no charge on and after July 1, 1999, and to add provision establishing, on and after July 1, 1998, maximum $5 charge, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 06-93 made technical changes in Subsec. (a), deleted former Subsec. (b) re adoption of regulations and redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as new Subsec. (b); pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Department of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Department of Housing in Subsec. (a), effective June 19, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37uu (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37uu - Transfer of housing loan portfolio to Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.

 Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Department of Economic and Community Development, in consultation with the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, the Office of Policy and Management and the State Treasurer, shall arrange for the transfer of the housing loan portfolio of said department or any portion thereof, to said authority.(May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-5, S. 16.)History: May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-5 effective July 1, 2002.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37ww (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37ww - Demonstration program for energy-efficient and environmentally safe housing.

 (a) As used in this section, “eligible building” means a two to six-family building that was built prior to 1950 and has wooden windows, and “commissioner” means the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development.(b) The commissioner may establish a demonstration program in one or more municipalities to promote energy efficiency and environmentally safe housing by providing matching grants to owners of eligible buildings to repair or replace wooden windows in such buildings. Such demonstration program may be funded from moneys allocated to the program established by section 8-37pp or from any moneys available to the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development from other sources. Of the first three municipalities in which such demonstration program is established, at least two shall have a population of one hundred thousand or more and at least one shall have a population of less than one hundred thousand. No such grant shall exceed one hundred dollars for each window to be repaired or replaced. The commissioner may contract with one or more entities to operate the program.(c) The demonstration program shall end on June 30, 2008. On or before February 1, 2008, the commissioner shall report to the select committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing as to the number of eligible buildings for which assistance was provided, the costs involved, the effectiveness of the demonstration program and the commissioner's recommendation as to whether the demonstration program should be expanded and made permanent.(May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-5, S. 18; P.A. 05-132, S. 1; P.A. 06-93, S. 21.)History: May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-5 effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 05-132 amended Subsec. (c) by extending the program's termination from June 30, 2005, to June 30, 2008, and changing the due date for the report on the program from February 1, 2005, to February 1, 2008, effective June 24, 2005; P.A. 06-93 deleted former Subsec. (d) re adoption of regulations, effective May 30, 2006.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37xx (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37xx - State-assisted housing sustainability: Definitions.

 As used in sections 8-37yy to 8-37aaa, inclusive:(1) “Eligible housing” means the housing that is in the housing loan portfolio that was transferred from the Department of Economic and Community Development to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority pursuant to section 8-37uu;(2) “Financial assistance” means grants, loans, deferred loans, no interest and low interest loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and similar financings; and(3) “Fund” means the State-Assisted Housing Sustainability Fund established pursuant to section 8-37yy.(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-4, S. 103; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 1.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-4 effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 substituted “Finance Authority” for “Finance Department” in Subdiv. (1) and made a technical change, effective October 6, 2007.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37aaa (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37aaa - Grants for physical needs assessment of eligible housing.

 (a) The Department of Housing shall design and administer a program of grants to owners of eligible housing to pay the cost of a comprehensive physical needs assessment for each eligible housing development. The final design of this program shall be subject to review by the State-Assisted Housing Sustainability Advisory Committee established pursuant to section 8-37zz. Such assessment may be a twenty-year life cycle analysis covering all physical elements, adjusted for observed conditions, and shall include, at a minimum, an evaluation of (1) dwelling units; building interiors and building envelopes; community buildings and amenities; site circulation and parking; site amenities such as lots; mechanical systems, including an analysis of technological options to reduce energy consumption and pay-back periods on new systems that produce heat and domestic hot water; and site conditions, (2) compliance with physical accessibility guidelines under Title II of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, and (3) hazardous materials abatement, including lead paint abatement. The costs of such needs assessments shall be paid from the fund.(b) A copy of each completed comprehensive physical needs assessment shall be submitted to the Department of Housing in a format prescribed by the department. The format shall be designed by the department so that a baseline of existing and standardized conditions of eligible housing can be prepared and annually updated to reflect changes in the consumer price index and annual construction costs.(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-4, S. 106; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-4 effective July 1, 2007; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Department of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Department of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37lll (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37lll - Certification of affordable housing units within certified historic structures. Regulations.

 (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall review applications for tax credits submitted to the Department of Housing pursuant to subsection (e) of section 10-416b or subsection (d) of section 10-416c. Upon determination that an application contains affordable housing, the commissioner shall issue a certificate to that effect. The commissioner shall monitor projects certified under this section to ensure that the affordable housing units are maintained as affordable for a minimum of ten years and may require deed restrictions or other fiscal mechanisms designed to ensure compliance with project requirements. In addition to the fee imposed by the Department of Economic and Community Development pursuant to subsection (h) of section 10-416c, the commissioner may impose a fee in an amount not exceeding two thousand dollars to cover the cost of reviewing applications and monitoring projects that qualify for affordable housing tax credits pursuant to subsections (a) to (j), inclusive, of section 10-416b or subsections (b) to (i), inclusive, of section 10-416c.(b) The Commissioner of Housing may adopt regulations, pursuant to chapter 54, for monitoring of projects that qualify for affordable housing tax credits pursuant to subsections (a) to (j), inclusive, of section 10-416b or subsections (b) to (i), inclusive, of section 10-416c by the Department of Housing, or by local housing authorities, municipalities, other public agencies or quasi-public agencies, as defined in section 1-120, designated by the department. Such regulations shall include provisions for ensuring that affordable units developed under subdivision (3) of subsection (e) of section 10-416b or subdivision (3) of subsection (d) of section 10-416c are maintained as affordable for a minimum of ten years and may require deed restrictions or other fiscal mechanisms designed to ensure compliance with project requirements.(P.A. 07-250, S. 22; P.A. 10-188, S. 16; P.A. 11-48, S. 127; P.A. 13-234, S. 2; P.A. 14-217, S. 166.)History: P.A. 07-250 effective July 1, 2007; P.A. 10-188 made technical changes, effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 11-48 deleted “, in consultation with the Commission on Culture and Tourism,” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development and Department of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing and Department of Housing, respectively, effective June 19, 2013; P.A. 14-217 added references to provisions of Sec. 10-416c and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37mmm (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37mmm - Visitable housing.

 (a) For purposes of this section, “visitable housing” means one-to-four family residential construction that includes three basic architectural features to allow persons with disabilities to easily visit: (1) Interior doorways that provide a minimum thirty-two inch wide unobstructed opening, (2) an accessible means of egress, as defined in Appendix A to 28 CFR Part 36, and (3) a full or half bathroom on the first floor that is compliant with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, 42 USC 12101.(b) The Department of Housing, in consultation with the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, may establish a program to encourage the development of visitable housing in the state. The program shall (1) provide a single point of contact for any person seeking financial or technical assistance from the state to construct visitable housing, (2) identify financial incentives for developers who construct visitable housing, and (3) include public education about such housing. The department shall submit a report on the status of the program, in accordance with section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing not later than October 1, 2012.(c) The Department of Housing shall establish, within available appropriations, an informational web page in a conspicuous place on such department's Internet web site with a list of links to available visitable housing resources.(P.A. 10-56, S. 2; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)History: Pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Department of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Department of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.