03/16/2026
Let's let them know this Bill is a BAD IDEA!
It forces Landlords into a housing contract that can only be terminated IF the tenant wants it to!!!! As long as the tenant pays rent and doesn't cause major crime or injury, the landlord can never force them to leave once the term of their lease expires!!!! Imagine having the power to stay in your hotel room or an AirBnB as long as you want as long as you pay what you agree is a fair rent! Or never having to turn in the car you rented because you don't feel like changing cars and you'll just pay the rent on this one!
No other business is forced to accept "perpetual" contracts! This is another example of the government taking (by controlling it) private property agains the property owner's rights and without just compensation!
Let's fill this event up with housing providers and let the media know what this Bill really means!
***PRESS ADVISORY***
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
11:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. EST
PRESS CONFERENCE: JUST CAUSE ADVANCES—GOVERNOR COMMITS SUPPORT
Who: Lawmakers championing the Just Cause Eviction bill, SB 257, alongside the Connecticut Tenants Union, CT Fair Housing Center, Make the Road CT, and other members of the Just Cause Coalition
We will update this advisory with a speaker list
What: A press conference celebrate the Housing Committee’s approval of SB 257 to expand Just Cause Protections to all renters in 5+ unit apartment buildings and to update on the public on the progress of this year’s bill, including Governor Lamont’s backing
Where: Capitol Building, South Lobby Portico (facing Capitol Ave)
When: Tuesday, March 17, 11:00am
Hartford, CT — Lawmakers and leaders from the state’s tenant movement are celebrating a milestone achievement after the Housing Committee passed SB 257, which will expand Just Cause protections and help stabilize the housing of hundreds of thousands Connecticut residents. Housing Committee co-chairs, Senator Martha Marx and Representative Antonio Felipe, have championed the proposed legislation, and Governor Lamont has recently committed his support.
SB 257, An Act Concerning Evictions for Cause, is a critical protective and preventative measure amidst our state’s ongoing crises of housing affordability, evictions, and homelessness. Currently, without “Just Cause” protections, tenants are routinely subjected to abuses of power by unscrupulous owners. They are likewise subjected to unacceptable levels of precarity, often being forced out of their homes and uprooted from their neighborhoods, towns, and cities because of speculative real estate practices that bake eviction into the business plan. Requiring that evictions be for a reasonable cause is a common-sense tool for raising the standard of living for hundreds of thousands of CT households who rent. SB 257 will expand existing Just Cause protections for disabled and senior renters in larger apartment buildings to cover all tenants in 5+ unit buildings, after the first year of a new renter’s tenancy.
