RPA joined the Connecticut Department of Housing and partners across the state to create this guidebook to help towns create strong affordable housing plans.
None of this happened by chance, none of this is a coincidence. It’s rather an accumulation of policy decisions made over several generations.”
Racial separation in the region is very strong: less than 10 percent of census tracts are racially“balanced,” that is, have about the regional average proportion of black families. Blacks are substantially under-represented in more than 70 percent, and substantially over-represented in about 20 percent of census tracts.