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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.
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. |
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The Center Helps Homeowners in Foreclosure
With more than 1 in 13 homeowners in Connecticut in foreclosure or more than 90 days past due on their mortgage, the foreclosure crisis has hit Connecticut's communities hard. To ensure that as many homeowners as possible keep their homes, the Center has: - Empowered Homeowners. Reached more than 1,500 homeowners in 149 towns in 2010 alone through foreclosure prevention classes and individual advice, advocacy, and representation. A list of foreclosure classes offered in Hartford and elsewhere in Connecticut can be found here.
- Provided Vital Information. Distributed more than 6,000 copies of our manual, "Representing Yourself in Foreclosure: A Guide for Connecticut Homeowners." This manual can be downloaded here or obtained by calling 860-247-4400.
- Trained Providers on the Front Lines. Provided training to the Judicial Branch's Foreclosure Mediation Program as well as support and training to HUD/CHFA-approved housing counselors, mortgage assistance counselors at the Connecticut Department of Banking, and attorneys on the Connecticut Bar Association's Pro Bono Panel.
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The Center Helps Connecticut's Most Vulnerable Citizens Find and Keep the Housing of their Choice
The Connecticut Fair Housing Center has helped Connecticut residents and the State by:
- Assisting People with Disabilities. Ensuring that 200 people with disabilities are able to stay in their homes. Many of these clients might otherwise have moved to a State-funded nursing home. Potential cost savings to the State of Connecticut: $15.6 million each year.
- Successful Civil Rights Advocacy. Obtaining $1.9 million dollarsin settlements on behalf of our clients who have experienced discrimination.
- Keeping CT Informed About Fair Housing Rights. Providing more than 1,500 Connecticut residents with information on the fair housing laws every year and offering adviced and assistance to the more than 300 Connecticut residents who called the Center for help with a discrimination issue each year.
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Tackling Housing Segregation and
Increasing Access to Opportunity
The Center has worked with an array of partners to find solutions to the problems of racial segregation and opportunity isolation by:
- Providing Affirmatively Furthering Advice. Working with DECD on to implement cutting-edge strategies to promote desegregation.
- Thoughtful Advocacy. Encouraging CHFA to place housing for families in need in low-crime, thriving school areas.
- Sustaining Communities. Partnering with the broad array of partners in the new Sustainable Communities Initiative "Knowledge Corridor" federal grant to ensure that the grant helps to reverse the current pattern of segregation.
- Retaining Federal Funding. Working with the State to ensure that it complies with all federal fair housing requirements, thus ensuring that Connecticut's $51 million in federal support for housing continues.
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Contact the Connecticut Fair Housing Center for Help
The Center can answer questions for you and your staff about foreclosure, housing discrimination, and ways to ensure that all Connecticut residents have access to housing in safe neighborhoods with high performing schools. You can contact the Center by calling 860-247-4400 or visit our website at www.ctfairhousing.org or email our staff at info@ctfairhousing.org.
We look forward to working with you to serve Connecticut residents.
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