OLR Bill Analysis
AN ACT CONCERNING PRIORITY FOR SUBSIDIZED HOUSING BY ELDERLY OR DISABLED PERSONS WITH EMERGENCY MEDICAL CONDITIONS.
This bill gives elderly people and people with disabilities residential priority in a housing authority's public housing projects if they:
1. previously lived in a unit of the authority's housing and
2. left for medical reasons related to the condition of the unit or project (e. g. , medical condition caused or irritated by mold).
The priority for occupancy applies only to other property the housing authority operates.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2009
BACKGROUND
Housing Authorities
State regulation requires a housing authority to maintain a waiting list for people who apply to live in its housing development and use the list to fill vacancies. The authority must provide a receipt to applicants and mark their applications with date and name or identifying number, signifying where that applicant is on the waiting list, and further categorize based on number of bedrooms needed, if necessary. The list must be accessible to the public. By law, housing authorities must rent or lease their units so they are affordable to low-income people.
COMMITTEE ACTION
Housing Committee
Joint Favorable
Yea |
10 |
Nay |
0 |
(03/10/2009) |