HUD ‘perpetuating segregation,’ Hartford families claim in lawsuit
Marina Ilarraza lives with her three children in a cramped two-bedroom apartment in Hartford’s North End. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is terminating its contract with her landlord and Ilarraza is waiting for a Section Eight Housing Choice voucher so she can find another apartment for her family. Credit: Cloe Poisson For years, […]
Lawsuit: HUD perpetuated racial segregation in Hartford area
The complaint was filed in federal court Wednesday by 10 former residents of three housing complexes in the city’s North End and by a nonprofit group.https://cljct.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Lawsuit-HUD-perpetuated-racial-segregation-in-Hartford-area-fox61.com_.mp4 HARTFORD, Conn — A lawsuit was filed Wednesday, alleging the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development violated the Fair Housing Act and perpetuated racial segregation in Hartford. The […]
State Investigating Former Hartford Landlord
Officials say from 2011 to 2018, Ku operated 26 buildings in Hartford’s North End, including the troubled Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments. https://cljct.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/State-Investigating-Former-Hartford-Landlord-–-NBC-Connecticut_2_2.mp4Attorney General William Tong says he will investigate a former Hartford landlord whose properties had multiple city and federal violations The state has launched an investigation into a former Hartford landlord accused of neglecting […]
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 […]
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 […]