Housing Choice — for Everyone!
The Connecticut Fair Housing Center is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that individual choice, and not discrimination, determines where people live in Connecticut. Because housing discrimination has a disproportionate effect on people with low incomes, we place a particular focus on the intersection of poverty and discrimination.
To learn more about our core fair housing mission, click here.
During the last four years, in response to a growing number of calls from communities of color complaining of predatory lending and foreclosure issues, we have broadened our core fair housing mission to include a range of foreclosure prevention efforts.
To learn more about our foreclosure prevention efforts, click here.
Latest News
Beware of Neighbor’s Home Foreclosure | June 15, 2009
. . . [R]eports released by the Center for Responsible Lending examined the spillover effects of the mortgage crisis. But this year it relied on new research about how a foreclosure affects neighborhood home values — specifically, a 2008 study that includes researchers at Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored agency, and the University of Connecticut.
This study found that homeowners who lived within 300 feet of a foreclosed residential property experienced a drop of 1.3 percent in home value; those living 300 to 500 feet of the foreclosed home typically see a drop in value of 0.6 percent. For more, click here.
5.3 Percent of Home Loans in Connecticut In Foreclosure | May 29, 2009
As the recession deepened in the first three months of this year, foreclosures and seriously delinquent home loans in Connecticut jumped above the rate of one mortgage of every 20 for the first time in at least 30 years. . . .
The scope of the problem has now become so broad that one housing advocacy group is running classes to help troubled borrowers . . . But the group, the Connecticut Fair Housing Center, doesn’t have enough staff.
To read more of the Hartford Courant article, click here.
