On Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 1:00 p.m., in Room 1A of the Legislative Office Building, the Connecticut Fair Housing Center introduced the details of a bill designed to eliminate the financial incentives to take advantage of unsuspecting borrowers in addition to offering effective enforcement mechanisms that consumers can use to avoid losing their homes in […]

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As homeowners increasingly default on their mortgages, lawyers are mobilizing to provide assistance to those at risk of losing their homes.
On Friday, the Connecticut Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee and the Connecticut Fair Housing Center are hosting a daylong foreclosure prevention strategies seminar in the grand courtroom of the Quinnipiac University School of Law, starting at […]

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New London, CT—Dorian Clement and Michael Kaminski have filed a housing discrimination complaint in the United States District Court in Connecticut alleging that Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Co., cancelled their dwelling insurance policy because they rented to men in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.  The couple, represented by Erin Kemple of the Connecticut Fair […]

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The Connecticut Fair Housing Center in conjunction with HUD and the Fair Housing Association of Connecticut is sponsoring a training on the accessibility requirements of the fair housing laws.  The training will take place at the Lyceum in Hartford on Thursday, February 28, 2008.  For more information, click here.  To register, click here .

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Foreclosure filings are up 920 percent from last year in Connecticut. The governor and the banking commissioner are scrambling to address the problem.
There are 71,000 active subprime mortgages in Connecticut, and many are delinquent and in danger of default, according to the governor.Of those 71,000 loans, 21,000 are scheduled to reset at much higher interest […]

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Andy Dlugolecki of Bristol says he’s facing foreclosure because he was tricked into an adjustable rate deal he thought would be fixed.
There are people facing foreclosure in the current crisis, however, who say they were defrauded, not just ill advised.These borrowers, like Andy Dlugolecki of Bristol, claim they were flim-flammed into signing the dotted line […]

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