Action Alert: Testify on Tuesday on the Right to Housing and Housing Opportunities for Justice Impacted Persons 
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The Housing Committee will hold a public hearing on
Tuesday, March 1st at 1:00 p.m.
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BILL SUMMARIES
H.B. 5208, An Act Concerning Housing Opportunities for Justice-Impacted Persons has come out of the work of the 2019 Council on the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record and if enacted will protect housing applicants with criminal records from discrimination and denials. This approach regulates and limits landlord’s review and use of criminal background checks to screen rental applicants or tenants, prevents blanket denial by landlords of applicants with criminal records. This bill also requires landlords to conduct an individualized assessment that considers such factors as the time passed since the conviction, the age at the time of the offense, and any evidence of mitigating circumstances such as rehabilitation, good behavior, or employment. 
S.B. 168, An Act Establishing a Right to Housing is a piece of legislation that expresses the need to progressively implement policies to respect, protect, and fulfill a right to affordable, decent, safe, and stable housing. This legislation would mobilize the Department of Housing to bring together experts on housing issues to analyze how the state can best implement a right to housing. This group will be comprised of appointees who have expertise in – or direct experience with – housing instability due to factors such as domestic violence, immigrant or refugee status, veteran status, as well as with gender or racial discrimination.  
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Please take the time today to sign up to testify or submit written testimony and share this message far and wide. The virtual format of the session allows as many coalition members as possible to testify and ask legislators to end discrimination against justice-impacted people searching for housing, and to guarantee housing for all. 
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Email your written testimony in Word or PDF (preferred) toHSGtestimony@cga.ct.gov 
To provide verbal testimony during the hearing:   
  • You must register using the On-line Testimony Registration Form. Registration will close on Monday, February 28, 2022, at 3:00 P.M
  • To register to testify by phone, call the Phone Registrant Line at (860) 240-0340 
  • Speaker order of approved registrants will be posted on the Housing Committee website on Monday, February 28, 2022, at 6:00 P.M. under Public Hearing Testimony. 
  • Testimony is limited to three (3) minutes
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The public hearing can be viewed via YouTube Live. In addition, the public hearing may be recorded and broadcast live on CT-N.com.
 
If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact Kay Munoz at kmunoz@cceh.org.  
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