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| 7 | 7 | | General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6239 |
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| 8 | 8 | | January Session, 2021 |
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| 9 | 9 | | LCO No. 4724 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Referred to Committee on HOUSING |
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| 15 | 15 | | Introduced by: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (HSG) |
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| 20 | 20 | | AN ACT CONCERNING HO USING FUNDING ALLOCA TION AND |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEGREGATION. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 23 | 23 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 25 | 25 | | Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) The Department of 1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Housing shall, within available appropriations, aggregate data related 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | to existing federal and state housing programs in the state to analyze the 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | impact of such programs on economic and racial segregation. Such 4 |
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| 29 | 29 | | review shall include, but not be limited to, data relating to (1) housing 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | development programs, (2) housing affordability initiatives, (3) 6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | communities where low-income housing tax credits and rental 7 |
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| 32 | 32 | | assistance are spent, and (4) specific neighborhood racial and economic 8 |
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| 33 | 33 | | demographics. In collecting and measuring such data, the Department 9 |
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| 34 | 34 | | of Housing shall implement tools such as the dissimilarity index and the 10 |
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| 35 | 35 | | five dimensions of segregation used by the United States Bureau of the 11 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Census. 12 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (b) Not later than January 1, 2022, and biennially thereafter, the 13 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Commissioner of Housing shall submit a report, in accordance with the 14 |
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| 39 | 39 | | provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing 15 Committee Bill No. 6239 |
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| 42 | 42 | | LCO 4724 {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2021HB-06239- |
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