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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6239
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on HOUSING
Introduced by:
(HSG)
AN ACT CONCERNING HO USING FUNDING ALLOCA TION AND
SEGREGATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) The Department of 1
Housing shall, within available appropriations, aggregate data related 2
to existing federal and state housing programs in the state to analyze the 3
impact of such programs on economic and racial segregation. Such 4
review shall include, but not be limited to, data relating to (1) housing 5
development programs, (2) housing affordability initiatives, (3) 6
communities where low-income housing tax credits and rental 7
assistance are spent, and (4) specific neighborhood racial and economic 8
demographics. In collecting and measuring such data, the Department 9
of Housing shall implement tools such as the dissimilarity index and the 10
five dimensions of segregation used by the United States Bureau of the 11
Census. 12
(b) Not later than January 1, 2022, and biennially thereafter, the 13
Commissioner of Housing shall submit a report, in accordance with the 14
provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing 15
committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters 16
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relating to housing. Such report shall include a summary of any findings 17
and recommendations relating to the data collected pursuant to 18
subsection (a) of this section. 19
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Department of Housing to gather data that can be used
to determine whether its housing programs affect economic and racial
segregation.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. ROJAS, 9th Dist.; REP. WINKLER, 56th Dist.
H.B. 6239