Resources
The Center for Housing Opportunity and our partners develop and deliver tools to help planners, policymakers and citizens create data-driven housing solutions for Fairfield, Litchfield, New London, Tolland, and Windham Counties in Connecticut. These include reports, databases, fact sheets and more.
To help communities understand and address challenges related to housing affordability, LCCHO and Regional Plan Association offer data and analysis on housing, incomes, and affordability.
This toolkit provides examples of messages you can use to build more public support for affordable housing in Litchfield County, and guidance about how to deliver those messages in your community.
This toolkit provides examples of messages you can use to build more public support for affordable housing in Eastern Connecticut, and guidance about how to deliver those messages in your community.
LCCHO and national systems change experts TheCaseMade developed a playbook to help advocates build more support for affordable housing by changing how they make their case.
CHEO and national systems change experts TheCaseMade developed a playbook to help advocates build more public support for affordable housing by improving the way they make their case.
CHEO developed scorecards to assess the quality of the affordable housing plans produced by communities in New London County.
This brief document provides tips on how to recruit and interview board members for your affordable housing non-profit.
This guide will demonstrate how to hold a successful onboarding or orientation meeting for new board members at your affordable housing non-profit.
This toolkit is intended to help local housing non-profits identify funding sources and strategies to meet their specific funding needs.
FCCHO developed scorecards to assess the quality of the affordable housing plans produced by communities in Fairfield County.
FCCHO and Urban Institute present county-level housing and demographic data, commissioned by the Connecticut Department of Housing & Department of Social Services.
This inventory – updated annually by the Northwest CT Regional Housing Council – identifies affordable housing developments in each of the 21 towns that the Council covers.
These town-level housing data profiles, produced by Partnership for Strong Communities, are intended to help Connecticut residents, officials and developers make data-informed decisions about housing.
FCCHO provides fact sheets which detail the relationship between housing and different sectors of the economy, including education, healthcare and economic development.
FCCHO details the investments communities can make with their share of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to improve and diversify their housing stock.
FCCHO partnered with Regional Plan Association to analyze the potential and conditions for accessory dwelling units (ADU) and single-family home conversions in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
To help communities understand and address housing challenges, FCCHO commissioned data and analysis on demographics and housing characteristics for all towns and cities in Fairfield County, CT.
FCCHO and Urban Institute present the first comprehensive look at affordable and accessible housing needs across CT, commissioned by the Department of Housing and Department of Social Services.
This statewide database tracks supply and demand for affordable and accessible housing in real time for the benefit of officials, citizens, developers, and advocates alike.
The Connecticut Department of Housing released this guidebook to help municipalities develop their local affordable housing plans, as required by state statute 8-30j.
FCCHO and national systems change experts TheCaseMade developed a playbook to help advocates build more public support for affordable housing by improving the way they make their case.
Additional Resources
Community Well-Being Index
The Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index is the first comprehensive community indicators program for Fairfield County, covering individual cities and neighborhoods throughout the area. The Index is a core community indicators program of DataHaven.
Fairfield County COVID-19 Resiliency Fund
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Resiliency Fund is rapidly deploying resources to trusted, frontline community organizations that meet the basic needs of local residents in Fairfield County.
Fourth Regional Plan
Regional Plan Association’s long-range regional plan for the New York Metropolitan region includes 16 recommendations that seek to address affordability and housing issues by addressing underlying shortcomings in the region’s governance structures.
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America speaks about the complicated history of segregation in the US, and how and why our communities have become racially segregated, during Pace University Land Use Law Center’s annual conference.
Local Housing Solutions
Resources to help cities, towns, and counties develop comprehensive and balanced local housing strategies that enhance affordability, protect low-income residents from displacement, and foster inclusive neighborhoods.
Opportunity Starts at Home
A long-term, multi-sector campaign to meet the rental housing needs of the nation’s low-income people.
National Low Income Housing Coalition
Resources to achieve socially just public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes in the US have affordable and decent homes.