Connecticut General Statutes
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.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions

Section 8-37r. - Department of Housing. Commissioner. Successor to certain functions, powers and duties. Designation as public housing agency.

Section 8-37s. - Commissioner to monitor housing needs and publish data on housing production.

Section 8-37t. - State's consolidated plan for housing and community development.

Section 8-37u. - Commissioner to coordinate housing policy and activities. Operating plan to be submitted and followed by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority. Commissioner to consult with Commissioner of Agriculture.

Section 8-37v. - Research activities.

Section 8-37w. - Model ordinance and procedures for regulation of land development.

Section 8-37x. - Powers of Commissioner of Housing. Housing authority purchases. Deferred payments of interest or principal. When commissioner deemed an eligible developer. Dissolution of eligible developer of state-financed property. Exceptions. Reg...

Section 8-37y. - Powers of Commissioner of Housing re state real property transferred to Department of Housing and surplus real property made available by the federal government.

Section 8-37z. - Duties of commissioners re involuntary displacement of residents of single-family or multifamily dwellings. Regulations.

Section 8-37aa. - Income-grouped housing: Definitions.

Section 8-37bb. - Annual report re fair housing choice and racial and economic integration.

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.

Section 8-37dd. - Retention of housing assisted by housing agencies.

Section 8-37ee. - Establishment of affirmative duty for entities participating in programs assisted or supervised by state housing agencies to promote fair housing.

Section 8-37ff. - Maintenance of comprehensive inventory of all assisted housing.

Section 8-37gg. - Fair hearings by commissioner. Application.

Section 8-37hh. - Decision. Appeal. Extension of time for filing appeal.

Section 8-37jj. - Electric resistance as primary source of heat.

Section 8-37kk. - Preference to loans for energy efficient projects.

Section 8-37ll. - Submission of residential antidisplacement and relocation assistance plan to responsible commissioner. Regulations.

Section 8-37mm. - Homelessness prevention and response fund. Grants to capitalize operating and replacement reserves in supportive housing units. Bonds.

Section 8-37pp. - Affordable housing. State assistance authorized. Terms and conditions. Regulations.

Section 8-37qq. - Uses of funds for bond-financed state housing programs. Housing Assistance Bond Fund. Housing Repayment and Revolving Loan Fund.

Section 8-37rr. - Definitions.

Section 8-37ss. - Housing funds consolidation. Procedures.

Section 8-37tt. - Administrative oversight charges.

Section 8-37uu. - Transfer of housing loan portfolio to Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.

Section 8-37vv. - Rental Housing Revolving Loan Fund. Regulations.

Section 8-37ww. - Demonstration program for energy-efficient and environmentally safe housing.

Section 8-37xx. - State-assisted housing sustainability: Definitions.

Section 8-37yy. - State-Assisted Housing Sustainability Fund. Financial assistance for preservation of eligible housing. Regulations.

Section 8-37zz. - State-Assisted Housing Sustainability Advisory Committee.

Section 8-37aaa. - Grants for physical needs assessment of eligible housing.

Section 8-37lll. - Certification of affordable housing units within certified historic structures. Regulations.

Section 8-37mmm. - Visitable housing.

Section 8-37nnn. - Interagency council on affordable housing.

Section 8-37ooo. - Deputy Commissioner of Housing. Appointment. Duties.

Section 8-37qqq. - Annual report re activities of Department of Housing.

Section 8-37rrr. - Annual report re rental assistance.

Section 8-37sss. - Term “commissioner” to be substituted for “secretary”. Term “Housing” to be substituted for “the Office of Policy and Management”, “Economic and Community Development” and “Social Services”.