The state of Housing

This conversation will discuss the state of Housing and its effects in New Haven.

More than half of New Haven residents are housing cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on the cost of their home. This is an immense number–more than 25,000 households city-wide. If the cost-burdened residents of New Haven were their own city, they would be the 9th-largest town or city in the state of Connecticut.

In its Breaking Ground Report 2023, Elm City Communities examines problems, barriers, and possible solutions to help the city progress.
This report summarizes housing data in New Haven since 2010, draws conclusions about the state of the housing market and housing affordability in the city, and makes policy recommendations for the City to implement immediately. The report primarily focuses on the severity and scale of New Haven’s housing affordability problems: the severity calls
or urgency, and the scale calls for scalable solutions.

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