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Healthy Food and Housing

Our Goal: Ensure that all Connecticut residents have equitable access to safe and affordable nutritious and culturally appropriate food, and fair, stable, healthy housing

1: Increase the utilization of available housing and food programs by eligible residents by 2025.
2: Increase the number of access points where people can obtain affordable, healthy, and nutritious food by 2025.
3: Decrease the number of persons experiencing or at risk of homelessness and increase opportunities to obtain affordable and sustainable housing by 2025.
4: Adopt and begin to implement a Connecticut property maintenance code that includes a statewide definition for safe and quality housing by 2025.
5: Increase the percentage of owner-occupied housing in CT by 2025.

Read more on the strategies employed to accomplish these goals in the Healthy Food and Housing Priorities Snapshot