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Connecticut will officially join other states in rolling back decades-old zoning limits to make ground-up homebuilding easier and more plentiful.<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday morning, Gov. Ned Lamont signed compromise legislation<\/a> created during a special session in mid-November, months after he vetoed<\/a> the original bill as the state addresses an estimated 100,000-unit housing shortage.<\/p>\n

According to sister-title HousingWIre<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter months of negotiations, the\u00a0Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and Council of Small Towns<\/strong>\u00a0backed the new bill alongside the governor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The milestone measure will take effect January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

In a now-familiar nationwide pattern, municipalities had objected to the state overriding their zoning decisions. They particularly opposed a \u201cFair Share\u201d policy that required cities, towns, and other localities to zone enough affordable housing to meet regional targets.<\/p>\n

Lamont agreed and pushed for a compromise that shifted to opting in to some \u2014 but not all \u2014 provisions. The compromise was passed two weeks ago, but the bill did not arrive on the governor\u2019s desk until Tuesday. He had promised to sign the bill this time, even though he continued to face pressure to nix it again.<\/p>\n

\u201cConnecticut\u2019s housing shortage is among the most severe in the country,\u201d Lamont said when the bill passed. \u201cSimply put, the status quo is unsustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among many provisions in the 100-page law, one allows approval of \u201cmissing middle\u201d housing developments by a summary or as-of-right\u2013like process in areas zoned commercial or mixed-use. Cities can choose to opt into a similar path in residential zones.<\/p>\n

The law bars municipalities from applying minimum off-street parking requirements to residential developments with fewer than 16 homes. For developments with more than 16 units, developers must provide a parking needs assessment instead of meeting rigid minimums.<\/p>\n

Lamont\u2019s signature marks another victory for the \u201cyes-in-my-backyard\u201d movement, which has had major wins in California this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill represents a big step in the right direction for facing [Connecticut\u2019s] housing shortage,\u201d activist group DesegregateCT said in a social media post.<\/p>\n

Using carrots instead of sticks<\/h2>\n

The bill creates a three-track incentive structure for towns, tied to access to new state money and regulatory relief. Towns can either complete a qualifying housing growth plan, contract with the Connecticut Municipal Development Authority, or adopt transit-oriented upzoning near rail and bus rapid transit.<\/p>\n

Choosing one of these options unlocks eligibility for new state funding streams and higher reimbursement rates for school construction projects.<\/p>\n

The CMDA option targets downtowns and station areas, where the authority can help finance and coordinate dense multifamily development. The transit-oriented development option pushes towns to zone for more units around transit, often with minimum density thresholds.<\/p>\n

These pathways sit alongside the planning-track option, where towns or councils of governments create detailed housing growth plans and land inventories.<\/p>\n

The bill also rewires how temporary 8-30g moratoriums work, especially around \u201cpoints\u201d for middle housing.<\/p>\n

Under the 8-30g law, developers can bypass local zoning and build affordable housing in towns with under 10% affordable units. Cities can deny a project only if they prove it poses serious health or safety risks that outweigh the need for affordable housing.<\/p>\n

With the new scheme, towns only earn durable moratorium credit for middle housing units if they opt into broader zoning reforms. Those reforms must allow middle housing types to go through a streamlined, summary-style review process in residential zones, not just in commercial or mixed-use districts.<\/p>\n

This link between moratorium points and zoning reforms aims to change town incentives. Towns that want relief from 8-30g litigation must not only permit some affordable units but also normalize middle housing procedurally in their residential districts.<\/p>\n

Banning algorithmic apartment rent pricing<\/h2>\n

For rentals, the law prohibits the use of \u201crevenue management\u201d or algorithmic rent-setting software to determine rents or occupancy in residential buildings, with significant civil penalties for violations.<\/p>\n

This year, California and New York became the first two states to ban the pricing practice. Several cities have advanced similar measures or investigations.<\/p>\n

Controversy erupted three years ago over the pricing practice when a federal class action lawsuit alleged data analytics company RealPage and a long list of major apartment management companies fixed rental prices. The lawsuit followed a ProPublica article<\/a> that detailed the practice.<\/p>\n

Tenants and critics alleged that the algorithms replaced competition with collusion, resulting in inflated rents and reduced tenants\u2019 ability to negotiate or find affordable options.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department and eight states filed an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage last year. RealPage settled<\/a> with the DOJ this week and agreed to stop training its algorithms using current leases and to exclude nonpublic data that competing apartment companies provide when making rent rate suggestions.<\/p>\n

RealPage doesn\u2019t admit any wrongdoing in the settlement. The company has long stated that its software has been misunderstood outside of the apartment industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are convinced that RealPage is part of the solution to addressing the cost of housing, helping operators make informed, independent decisions in a complex housing market,\u201d Dirk Wakeham, RealPage\u2019s CEO, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

RealPage settled with Nevada in September. A week ago, Connecticut joined eight other states<\/a> in settling with Greystar Management Services, the nation\u2019s largest apartment manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the largest landlord in the entire United States rigs the market with unfair and anticompetitive algorithms, it jacks up costs for everyone, everywhere,\u201d Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s settlement begins to restore fairness to this broken system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connecticut zoning reform is just the beginning<\/h2>\n

Florida, California, Colorado and Texas offer examples<\/a> of what may be in store for Connecticut as it implements the new law. In each state, municipalities have pushed back on state-level involvement in local zoning and have often dodged the laws by working through loopholes.<\/p>\n

This year, Florida passed a third iteration of its Live Local Act to close loopholes and pressure municipalities to conform. In Colorado, home-rule cities sued the state over what they consider an intrusion on their local authority.<\/p>\n

California charter cities sued over a 2022 law allowing \u201cmissing middle\u201d housing in residential neighborhoods and won last year. The state appealed the ruling.<\/p>\n

Texas suburban cities preempted<\/a> new state housing laws this year with ordinances that make building apartments more difficult and costly.<\/p>\n

If the Connecticut compromise law works, the next few years should bring more projects entitled under locally crafted growth plans instead of one-off battles over every housing development.<\/p>\n

If it stalls, the summer\u2019s veto saga and this fall\u2019s special session will look less like a reset and more like another chapter in Connecticut\u2019s long habit of dodging its housing math.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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