As the paper s new politics and government reporter, I write about state and national issues with a focus on southeastern Connecticut. I particularly enjoy reporting on voting rights and how political trends play out at the local level. I ve worked as a town reporter for The Day, covering Montville and Waterford from 2019-2021 as well as writing breaking news and general assignment stories.
Sten Spinella
As the paper s new politics and government reporter, I write about state and national issues with a focus on southeastern Connecticut. I particularly enjoy reporting on voting rights and how political trends play out at the local level. I ve worked as a town reporter for The Day, covering Montville and Waterford from 2019-2021 as well as writing breaking news and general assignment stories.
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WATERBURY A nonprofit aiming to transform a blighted office building and several vacant lots along Linden Street into a 44-apartment development will get a $3.7 million boost from the state.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that $49 million in state funding for affordable housing development is set to be approved by the Bond Commission. The funding requests are on the agenda of a commission meeting this Friday.
That funding will be split among 16 projects in various municipalities, including plans by nonprofit Neighborworks New Horizons to build two buildings with 44 apartments on lots bordering Linden Street. The project is estimated to cost $16 million. The nonprofit expects to break ground within a year.
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Amid soaring prices and low inventory, Connecticut s home ownership rate is falling
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A construction crew builds a new unit in April 2021 at Toll Brothers’ Bethel Crossing development in Bethel, Conn. Home ownership remains below levels exiting the Great Recession, despite historically low interest rates.Alexander Soule /
Joan Carty knows the 22 condominium units her Housing Development Fund is building in Stamford will not reverse Connecticut’s long-term trend lines for home ownership.
But if you add similar-sized developments in each town statewide, a home comes into reach for 3,700 more Connecticut families many of whom are finding affordable options dwindling fast in the spring of 2021, as a hot real estate market stokes prices.
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