State Launches Trade Practices Investigation Into Former Hartford Landlord
State officials are pursuing a new way to hold accountable landlords who endanger residents with unsafe and unsanitary living conditions, starting with the former owner of the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments in the North End of Hartford. Attorney General William Tong announced Wednesday that the state has launched a civil investigation into Emmanuel Ku of […]
Separated by Design: Why affordable housing is built in areas with high crime, few jobs and struggling schools
This article was produced through a partnership between ProPublica and the Connecticut Mirror, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Hartford — The moon pulls 6-year-old Romeo Lugo to the window at night. The autistic child loves to gaze up at it, howling like a werewolf as it rises like a luminous pearl over the […]
City of Hartford looking to re-vamp housing code
HARTFORD—The city is looking to re-vamp its housing code and this comes after what many residents say are calling an invasion of slum lords. No more slum lordS …https://cljct.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Lawsuit-HUD-perpetuated-racial-segregation-in-Hartford-area-fox61.com-1.mp4 HARTFORD—The city is looking to re-vamp its housing code and this comes after what many residents say are calling an invasion of slum lords. No more […]
Hartford public housing residents celebrate a win
HARTFORD – After years of living in poor conditions in Hartford’s Barbour Gardens Apartments, the residents of the 84 public housing units will now … https://cljct.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Hartford-public-housing-residents-celebrate.mp4 HARTFORD – After years of living in poor conditions in Hartford’s Barbour Gardens Apartments, the residents of the 84 public housing units will now be permitted to take their […]
HUD says it will relocate Hartford tenants from apartments featured in NBC News investigation
By Laura Strickler, Hannah Rappleye and Suzy Khimm WASHINGTON — Tenants of a troubled federally subsidized apartment complex in Hartford, Connecticut, were told Friday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development had canceled their landlord’s contract and will move them to new homes. The Infill Apartments were featured in a three-month NBC News investigation that found rats, mold, roaches and […]
Continuing shutdown roils public housing tenants
Community organizer Tieasha Gayle speaks to Barbour Gardens tenants at a meeting on Tuesday Late last year, a housing official was helping dozens of families in Hartford’s Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments move from the vermin and mold-infested public housing project to new, safe, affordable homes. But after the Department of Housing and Urban Development became […]
Hartford’s Christian Activities Council Works Side by Side with Residents for Housing Justice
U.S. Rep. John Larson, left, sent a video message of support to Josh Serrano and the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments tenants. The bottom level of the famous hierarchy of needs, postulated by Abraham Maslow in the 1940s, is physiological. The most basic needs of human beings have to do with the survival and safety of […]
Interview with Joshua Serrano, Tenant Leader
On July 11, 2017, tenants of the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments (CARA), with the support of CAC, held a public action at Shiloh Baptist Church on Albany Avenue to demand better housing. Despite the
Interview with Joshua Serrano, Tenant Leader
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Tenant Leaders Host Community Organizing Cookout
On Saturday, September 30th, Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments (CARA) tenant leaders, with support of the Christian Activities Council, held a community cookout in Lozada Park at the corner of Center and Seyms street in