Section 8 vouchers should give low-income people the opportunity to live outside poor communities. But discriminatory landlords, exclusionary zoning and the federal government’s hands-off approach leave recipients with few places to call home.
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Recent comments from Democratic leadership and Gov. Ned Lamont suggest that housing and zoning two hot-button policy topics with dire real-world consequences will be major issues during the legislative session.
When Carmen Diaz faced eviction as an adult, she remembered that her mother never got her deposit back after the eviction, which set their family back financially. They were evicted, she said, after the owner’s home was foreclosed on, not because her mother missed rent.