The state announced Monday it will award $10.7 million in grants to five municipalities for infrastructure upgrades to modernize and rehabilitate housing for low- and moderate-income residents.
The state announced Monday it will award $10.7 million in grants to five municipalities for infrastructure upgrades to modernize and rehabilitate housing for low- and moderate-income residents.
Gov. Ned Lamont and state Housing Commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno said the grants are being released through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Cities program, which is administered by the state Department of Housing with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Under the program, eligible projects must be in a municipality with a population of fewer than 50,000 residents.
State officials said the grants will help preserve and develop affordable housing, modernize a domestic violence shelter, enhance services to the most vulnerable residents in their communities and create and retain jobs.
The grants awarded include:
- $2.5 million to modernize Green Manor public housing in Thomaston, including creating eight ADA-compliant units and community building renovations;
- $2.2 million for modernizing Wright’s Village public housing in Mansfield;
- $2 million to modernize the Orchard Hill Estates public housing in Coventry;
- $2 million to design and build future affordable housing projects of up to 16 rental units and eight homeownership opportunities in Guilford; and
- $2 million for infrastructure at Colby Drive in Ledyard, the largest Habitat for Humanity development in the state that will develop 38 units of two-, three- and four-bedroom homes, single-family units and duplexes.
