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Redlining and Housing Discrimination in Connecticut

A guide for researching redlining and other forms of housing discrimination.

Connecticut Government Documents

Online Government Documents

Legislative history for Public Act 80-424, "An Act Requiring the Insurance Commissioner to Adopt Regulations Governing the Availability of Insurance on Real Property Regardless of Location"
This 1980 act banned the practice of insurance discrimination based on location.
Connecticut state statute prohibiting redlining (sec. 38a-824)
Connecticut Zoning and Discrimination 2021
A report by the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities on the discriminatory effects of municipal zoning laws.
Equitable Homebuying - a report by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (2021)
HUD rule : preserving community and neighborhood choice by McGann, Shaun, author. ; Connecticut. General Assembly. Office of Legislative Research
Describes the effects of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development's final rule "Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice."

Printed Documents in the Connecticut State Library

A report to the State Banking Commissioner regarding "redlining" and home mortgage disclosure by Andrew J. Gold
Call Number: Conn Doc (Ba22 rr)
Publication Date: 1977
Published by Trinity College
Mortgage discrimination by financial intermediaries : a case study of residential mortgages in Hartford, Connecticut by Stephen M. Miller
Call Number: Cage Conn Doc (Ag83cen rea no.36)
Publication Date: 1982
Storrs, Conn. : Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies, School of Business Administration, University of Connecticut
C.G.S. section 8-37bb report by Connecticut Housing Finance Authority
Call Number: Cage Conn Doc (H819 CGS 8-37bb)
Publication Date: 2010-2018
An annual report re: "fair housing choice and racial and economic integration" from the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority. Available online.
Housing discrimination and opportunities in the state of Connecticut : a report of the state of Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities ; remarks of Leonor Toro, chairperson, Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities
Call Number: Conn Doc (H888 hodi rep)
Publication Date: 1986
Insurance redlining by Jerome Harleston, Office of Legislative Research (OLR)
Publication Date: 1997

Federal Government Documents

Fair Housing Act of 1968
A 1968 law prohibiting housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, or disability.
Housing discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities 2012
A report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development