Abigail Brone
Housing ReporterAbigail is Connecticut Public's housing reporter, covering statewide housing developments and issues, with an emphasis on Fairfield County communities. She received her master's from Columbia University in 2020 and graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2019. Abigail previously covered statewide transportation and the city of Norwalk for Hearst Connecticut Media. She loves all things Disney and cats.
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More than 60% of home builders report feeling the impacts of the tariffs on Canadian goods, including steel, plywood and aluminum. -
Families living under the ALICE threshold decreased by about 11,000 from 2023 to 2024, but the rates of financially strained families are once again increasing. -
About $2 million in state funding has gone toward the project, which is still in the early stages. The building was abandoned for about 24 years. -
More than five hundred kids in Connecticut are currently unhoused, a roughly 15% increase from last year. That includes children living in shelters, motels and doubled up with family or friends. -
In roughly the last year, there were about 55,000 calls to Connecticut’s 988 suicide hotline and more than 28,000 calls to the social services 211 hotline. -
The report found three new problems for working families: the continued rise in inflation, Connecticut’s worsening unemployment rate and cuts to federal aid programs. -
Se están construyendo diez viviendas en el oeste de Connecticut como parte de una iniciativa de vivienda asequible encabezada por el Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity. -
Two of the townhomes would be what the town calls “moderate housing,” where buyer incomes cannot exceed more than roughly $120 thousand to $190 thousand. -
Ten homes are being built in western Connecticut as part of an affordable housing effort spearheaded by the Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity.
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The group’s support of Lamont stems from his track record, trying to promote Connecticut as a desirable place to live. The group previously endorsed Lamont in 2022, but backed his Republican opponent in 2018.
