Rep. Scott Applauds Passage of Bill Creating Task Force on Affordable Housing Reforms

Hartford, CT – The Connecticut House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in support of a bill that will look into possible reforms to the 8-30g process. State Representative Tony Scott (R-Monroe), Housing Committee Ranking Member and a member of the Majority Leader’s Roundtable on Affordable Housing, spoke in support of the bill.

“A lot of towns struggle with the 10% threshold. The denominator piece of the affordable housing calculation under the 8-30g statutes is a problem, sometimes preventing building because that could potentially hurt their percentage,” said Rep. Scott. “Maybe they're just over that 10% threshold, and by building 100 units it knocks them down underneath that and they’d open themselves up to new affordable housing applications.”

The task force is also going to look at the number of years for how long an affordable housing unit would have to be classified as affordable. Right now, it is traditionally 40 years.

“Those are hurdles to some towns that we're going to look at to, hopefully, address so that we can reduce the number of complaints against towns and why they can't move forward with some housing,” added Rep. Scott.

Rep. Scott also touted the composition of the appointments.

“Only half could be legislators, which I think is great because we need these experts across the state that have the knowledge in these different fields, to make sure that we're using their knowledge too, not just the legislators,” concluded Rep. Scott.

The bill now moves to the Senate for further consideration. The 2026 General Assembly session adjourns on May 6.