Title 8 — Title 8: Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

Sec. 8-68c. Notice of certain actions concerning federally assisted multifamily rental housing for low and moderate income persons and families. (a) As used in this section, “covered program” means: (1) New construction, substantial rehabilitation, moderate rehabilitation, proper…

Sec. 8-68d. Housing authority annual report. Each housing authority shall submit a report to the Commissioner of Housing and the chief executive officer of the municipality in which the authority is located not later than March first, annually. The report shall contain (1) an inv…

Sec. 8-68e. Financial assistance to housing authorities for rehabilitation of uninhabitable dwelling units. The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a housing authority for state financial assistance, within availab…

Sec. 8-68f. Tenants' rights and grievance procedures. Regulations. Each housing authority that receives financial assistance under any state housing program, and the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority or its subsidiary when said authority or subsidiary is the successor owner o…

Sec. 8-68g. Developer's fees charged by eligible developers. The Commissioner of Housing may, in accordance with regulations adopted in accordance with chapter 54, permit any eligible developer to charge a developer's fee in connection with the construction, renovation or rehabil…

Sec. 8-68h. Tenant escrow accounts. (a) Each housing authority created pursuant to section 8-40 shall establish in accordance with this section a program to enable tenants to save funds sufficient to rent a private dwelling unit or to make a down payment for a home. (b) Each hous…

Sec. 8-68i. Emergency housing in projects. A housing authority, created under section 8-40, may allow one or more vacant units in housing projects operated by the authority to be used as emergency housing on a temporary basis. As used in this section “emergency” means a loss of a…

Sec. 8-68j. Financially distressed development. Transfer to Connecticut Housing Finance Authority. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Housing; (2) “Connecticut Housing Finance Authority” means the authority created and operating pursuant to …

Sec. 8-68k. Compliance with requirements for operation and disposition of housing projects by successor. Whenever the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority or its subsidiary is a successor owner of housing previously owned by a housing authority under part II or part VI of this c…

Sec. 8-68l. Tenants' use of common areas for political activity. (a) For purposes of this section, (1) “public housing project” means dwelling accommodations operated as a state or federally subsidized multifamily housing project by a housing authority, nonprofit corporation or m…

Sec. 8-69. Moderate rental housing projects and moderate cost housing; declaration of policy. It is hereby declared (a) that there is a serious shortage in urban, suburban and rural areas of moderate rental housing and moderate cost housing for families of veterans of World War I…

Sec. 8-70. State assistance. (a) Upon preliminary approval by the State Bond Commission pursuant to the provisions of section 3-21, the state, acting by and through the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract or contracts with an authority or combination of authorities…

Sec. 8-70a. Pilot program for rehabilitation and private management of moderate rental housing projects. Section 8-70a is repealed, effective October 1, 2000. (P.A. 97-307, S. 2, 4; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1, S. 7, 51; P.A. 00-195, S. 2.)

Sec. 8-71. Payments in lieu of taxes, assessments and use charges. Municipal waiver of payment. Exception. (a) In lieu of real property taxes, special benefit assessments and sewerage system use charges otherwise payable to such municipality, except in such municipalities as, by …

Sec. 8-72. Operation of projects. Rentals. Tenant eligibility. Inspections. Semiannual statements. Penalty for false statement. Each developer or housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwell…

Sec. 8-72a. Maximum income limits. Exceptions: Factors to be considered. (a) The maximum income limits under section 8-72 shall be eighty per cent of the area median income adjusted for family size. (b) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (a) of this section, each develop…

Sec. 8-73. Eviction of families having income over maximum limits. Waiver of eviction requirement. (a) A tenant in a moderate rental housing project shall vacate the dwelling unit occupied by such tenant not later than sixty days after the housing authority or developer has maile…

Sec. 8-74. Hearing on and approval of proposed projects. Use of modern materials. Regulations. Wage rates. No moderate rental housing project shall be developed until (1) the housing authority or, in the case of a developer, the Commissioner of Housing has provided notice to the …

Sec. 8-75. Veterans' preference. As among applicants eligible for occupancy at the rent involved whose needs for housing accommodations are substantially equal, as determined by the developer, preference shall be given to veterans. As used in this section, “veteran” has the same …

Sec. 8-76. Sale of projects. Regulations to establish priority order of purchasers. Payment and disposition of purchase price. Upon the determination by the Commissioner of Housing of the termination of the acute shortage of moderate rental housing in the locality or upon the det…

Sec. 8-76a. Commissioner's authority to service notes and mortgages. The Commissioner of Housing is authorized and directed on behalf of the state (a) to do any and all acts or things necessary or appropriate to service purchase money notes and mortgages originated pursuant to th…

Sec. 8-77. Preference among municipalities. In reviewing the needs of municipalities of the state for moderate rental housing projects as the basis for allocating amounts of state financial assistance for such projects, the Commissioner of Housing shall take into account the resp…

Sec. 8-78. Aggregate of bonds and notes state may issue for moderate rental housing projects. The aggregate amount of all bonds and notes issued by the state pursuant to subsection (a) of section 8-80 to meet its obligations under assistance agreements for moderate rental housing…

Sec. 8-79. Preliminary expenses. Funds borrowed by a developer to pay for options on sites, engineering and architectural services and other preliminary expense incident to the construction of a moderate rental housing project under the provisions of this part may, subject to the…

Sec. 8-79a. Regulations. The Commissioner of Housing shall make and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes of this part, to determine the allocation of the loans, deferred loans or mortgage loans to be granted, the terms and conditions of such loans, the conditions for app…

Sec. 8-80. Issuance of bonds and notes. (a) For the purposes of this part, the State Treasurer is authorized and directed, subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission, to issue bonds and notes of the state, from time to time, to the amount provided in section 8-78. Such …

Sec. 8-81. Repayment of loans. Repayment by an authority of the sums loaned to it by the state shall be made only from the income received by such authority from the operation or sale of housing projects for which such sums were loaned to it or from federal funds received by such…

Sec. 8-81a. Housing project adaptable for use and occupancy by disabled persons. Pilot program. Regulations. Report. Section 8-81a is repealed, effective July 1, 2013. (P.A. 88-268, S. 5, 6; P.A. 89-144, S. 1; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 155.) PART…

Sec. 8-82. Purchase and sale of units by state. Insurance of mortgage loans. Mortgage loans. In order to encourage and facilitate the construction or rehabilitation of housing to be purchased by families of low and moderate income and the rehabilitation by or purchase of existing…

Sec. 8-83. Preference in granting mortgage loans. In granting any mortgage loan or construction mortgage loan or in insuring any construction mortgage loan provided for in section 8-82, preference shall be given in the following order: (a) To families of low and moderate income, …

Sec. 8-84. Regulations. The Commissioner of Housing shall make and enforce reasonable regulations to carry out the purposes of this part, to determine the allocation of the mortgages to be granted, the terms and conditions of such mortgages, the order of priority to be observed i…

Sec. 8-85. Foreclosure; conveyance of title and assignment of claims to state. If the mortgagee, under a construction mortgage insured under the provisions of section 8-82, has foreclosed and taken title to and possession of the mortgaged property, or, with the consent of the Com…

Sec. 8-86. Housing bonds or notes. (a) For the purposes of this part the State Treasurer is authorized and directed, subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission, to issue bonds and notes of the state to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate sixty million dollars, incl…

Sec. 8-87. Housing Mortgage Fund. The proceeds from the sale of such bonds and notes, except refunding bonds and notes, shall be deposited in a fund designated “the Housing Mortgage Fund”, which fund shall be used to make the loans authorized by this part. Payments from the fund …

Sec. 8-88. Investment. The State Treasurer is authorized to temporarily invest in direct obligations of the United States of America such proceeds of the sale of housing mortgage bonds of the state of Connecticut and housing mortgage notes of the state of Connecticut as he determ…

Sec. 8-89. Commissioner to be agent for mortgages and loans. The Commissioner of Housing is designated as the state agency empowered to hold or originate in the name of the state first and second mortgages on real estate and secondary loans as provided in this part. (1949, S. 465…

Sec. 8-90. Applicability of provisions. Section 8-90 is repealed. (1949, 1951, S. 466d; P.A. 77-614, S. 284, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 81, 136; 78-374, S. 8.)

Sec. 8-91. Payment of administrative expenses. Subject to the approval of the Governor, any expense incurred by the state in connection with the carrying out of the provisions of parts I and II of this chapter and this part, including the hiring of necessary employees and the ent…

Sec. 8-92. Inspection by commissioner. The Commissioner of Housing shall have the right of inspection of any housing during the period between the date on which construction thereof begins and the date the state loan is fully paid. (1949, S. 468d; 1967, P.A. 522, S. 8; P.A. 77-61…

Sec. 8-93. Tax exemption. The principal and interest of bonds and notes issued under the provisions of part II of this chapter and this part shall be exempt from taxation. The provisions of this section shall apply to all notes or bonds issued prior to October 6, 1949, under the …

Sec. 8-94. Wage rates. The provisions of section 31-53 shall apply to the construction or rehabilitation of homes by an eligible developer under this part, whenever the eligible developer either (1) obtains a mortgage loan from the state for the construction or rehabilitation of …

Secs. 8-95 to 8-104. Flood relief housing, generally. Sections 8-95 to 8-104, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (November, 1955, S. N20–N29; 1957, P.A. 646, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 522, S. 8; P.A. 77-614, S. 284, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 81, 136; P.A. 79-598, S. 3, 4, 10; …

Sec. 8-119zz. Connecticut Housing Authority established. Board members, appointment, term, procedure. (a) There is established the Connecticut Housing Authority, which shall be a body politic and corporate and shall constitute a public instrumentality and political subdivision of…

Sec. 8-120. Area of operation. The area of operation of the Connecticut Housing Authority in regard to housing shall include all of the state, provided said authority shall not, on and after May 25, 1994, initiate or acquire any additional housing projects in any municipality. If…

Sec. 8-121. Connecticut Housing Authority a successor to housing authority powers of Commissioner of Housing. Powers of Connecticut Housing Authority. (a) The Connecticut Housing Authority shall, in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-38d, 4-38e and 4-39, constitute a su…

Sec. 8-121a. Issuance of bonds. Hearings. Section 8-121a is repealed, effective May 25, 1994. (P.A. 83-339, S. 8, 9; P.A. 86-281, S. 4; P.A. 89-211, S. 14; P.A. 94-56, S. 4, 5.)

Sec. 8-122. Applicable laws. The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or inconsistent therewith, all provisions of law applicable to local housing authorities …

Sec. 8-123. Citizens' Advisory Commission on Housing. Section 8-123 is repealed. (March, 1950, S. 481d; 1967, P.A. 522, S. 35.)

Sec. 8-124. Declaration of public policy. It is found and declared that there have existed and will continue to exist in the future in municipalities of the state substandard, insanitary, deteriorated, deteriorating, slum or blighted areas which constitute a serious and growing m…

Sec. 8-125. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Redevelopment” means improvement by the rehabilitation or demolition of structures, by the construction of new structures, improvements or facilities, by the location or relocation of streets, parks and utilities, by replanni…