Decades of discriminatory housing policies and public actions have created two separate and unequal housing markets in Connecticut. These markets are sharply divided across race and ethnicity. White people are more often provided opportunities to increase their housing stability, and people of color are more often locked into a lifetime of renting, bound to live where rental housing is available. Locked into tenancy in Connecticut means that these households are unable to build wealth through housing equity, unable to ensure their housing is safe and habitable, and unable to stop the loss of their housing through eviction. Women of color are even more vulnerable to the effects of the state’s housing crisis.

In Connecticut, prior to the pandemic, landlords filed over 20,000 evictions a year. These evictions occurred almost exclusively in the state’s major cities, and four of Connecticut’s cities are in the top 100 evicting cities in the country. CT Data Collaborative and the Connecticut Fair Housing Center have analyzed five years of eviction filings to better understand the eviction crisis in Connecticut. 

Exposing Connecticut's Eviction Crisis is a collaboration between the Connecticut Data Collaborative (CTData), CT Fair Housing and Aurora Women and Girls Foundation. 

This research was funded by the Aurora Women and Girls Foundation, the William and Alice Mortensen Foundation, and the National Low-Income Housing Coalition.

Many links to resources were  given during the presentation. If you have more items to add, please email them to:  marie@aurorafoundation.org

EVICTION DATA RESOURCES