FAIR SHARE PLAN AND FORMULA FOR CONNECTICUT

The Open Communities Alliance (OCA) is a civil rights nonprofit organization in Connecticut that promotes access to opportunity for all people through education, advocacy, research, and partnerships. OCA's opportunity mapping work has shown that low-opportunity areas in Connecticut contain a disproportionate amount of affordable housing. To promote housing choice and the deconcentration of poverty in Connecticut, the Capstone team conducted best practices research on fair share planning, analyzed existing conditions and planning efforts in Connecticut, and developed a Fair Share Housing Plan to propose statewide adoption. The final report utilizes a series of criteria to allocate a portion of the statewide demand for affordable housing to select municipalities that will then be encouraged to meet production targets through a series of policy incentives.