(Updated 8 p.m.) Gov. Dannel P. Malloy doubled down on a commitment made during his first year in office to increase the state’s investment in affordable and supportive housing by asking the General Assembly to approve an additional $330 million in borrowing to support the initiative over the next 10 years.

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Tags: housing, malloy, advocates

With a national movement heading in different directions, empty houses may be beckoning.

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With winter a week away, Operation Fuel released an annual report Thursday which found that the gap between what low-income households in Connecticut could afford to pay in energy bills and what they actually owed has increased since last year.

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Tags: Operation Fuel, Patricia Wrice, chris donovan, LIHEAP, heating assistance, Hugh McQuaid

Carol Bowen has been trying to renegotiate her mortgage with her bank for months, and is frustrated at the response she‘s gotten.

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Tags: bank, foreclosure, mortgage, distress, homeowner, Howard Pitkin, Sen. Bob Duff

The state wants to help the tens of thousands of homeowners on the verge of foreclosure or in the foreclosure process next week when it hosts a homeowners’ assistance event at the Connecticut Convention Center.

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Tags: mortgage, foreclosure, Jepsen, Malloy, Pitkin, banks, banking

Family homelessness in Connecticut rose 15 percent in the last year as buying or renting homes became increasingly expensive in the state, according to an annual study from the Partnership for Strong Communities.

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Tags: homelessness, housing, income disparity

U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy announced Friday he would that he would be using a new tactic, a statewide petition, to avoid the “horrors that could result” from a major cut to a federal heating assistance program.

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Tags: LIHEAP, chris murphy, heating assistance, Hugh McQuaid

A Program Review and Investigations Committee report found it costs less to care for an individual with developmental disabilities in the community than it does at the Southbury Training School, but the state said it has no plans to immediately close the facility, which hasn’t accepted any new admissions in more than 20 years.

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Tags: developmental disabilities, Southbury Training, Terrence Macy, Program Review and Investigations

ROCKY HILL—Gary Griffith was one of more than a 1,000 needy veterans expected to access free services from private companies and public agencies at the 16th annual Stand Down Friday.

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Tags: department of veterans affairs, homelessness, veterans, Hugh McQuaid

Statistics prepared by the Judicial Branch show the number of home foreclosures over the past year in Connecticut to be less than they were the year before the recession hit. However, a foreclosure lawyer said the drop is artificial.

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Tags: foreclosures, bank of america, banks, homeowners, Hugh McQuaid