Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions
Section 8-37v. - Research activities.

The Commissioner of Housing is authorized to undertake and carry out research activities, including, but not limited to, examination of housing needs and means of meeting those needs; investigation of techniques and opportunities for reducing housing costs, preserving neighborhoods and reducing energy consumption; testing of innovative housing technologies; the use of mobile and modular housing; and such other activities as he deems necessary to aid the state, its municipalities and the housing industry in meeting housing and community development needs.

(P.A. 79-598, S. 9; 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 Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.

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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”.