Naugatuck Valley residents worry over rent hikes
Eddy Martinez
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A For Rent sign is posted in California earlier this year. Rents are rising in the Naugatuck Valley in Connecticut, leading many residents to worry about finding a place to live.Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press
ANSONIA Naugatuck Valley residents are being priced out of rental homes due to out-of-state residents not only buying up homes, but also pricing out other renters from apartments.
This has led to a competition on limited housing stock in the region that officials at TEAM, a nonprofit human services agency, said could lead to homelessness.
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For a year, two sisters and their five children have languished in a neglected, Hartford apartment despite numerous complaints about the cockroach infestation, heat and power outages, broken appliances and other issues. The poor conditions they've lived with are all too common.
A Hartford family with two young children narrowly avoided losing their home in the middle of this week’s snow storm after community activists rallied to protest their near-eviction by a tax-delinquent, New York landlord.
The eviction crisis is already here : Many in CT struggle even as moratoriums are extended lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.