Kent Affordable Housing

10/02/2026

Thank you to Ace Hardware of Kent, CT - and everyone who rounded up - for the generous support!

We greatly appreciate it, and know the other other great non-profits our local Ace features every month do too! Keep on rounding up!

Thank you to everyone for making such a meaningful contribution to our community!
@ Kent Affordable Housing 🏡🔑

Ensuring our neighbors have access to quality affordable homes keeps our community strong, vibrant, and welcoming. ❤️

09/22/2026

The 2026 Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit will be held in Kent this Thursday. The Department of Housing Commissioner, the leader of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, and local affordable housing organizations will be providing remarks and updates.

RSVP below if you are interested in attending!

09/17/2026

A great profile of a couple in their early 20s doing the unthinkable in Litchfield County these days - purchasing a newly constructed single family home!

Their home is part of the Haystack Woods development in Norfolk, developed by the Foundation for Norfolk Living with funding from the CT Department of Housing and other sources.

Thanks to the deep subsidy, the homes in the development were sold for well below the cost of construction - $159,000 to $261,000.

Our Home, Our Future

08/29/2026

Come on down to the Library Carnival to meet some baby goats, discuss housing, and sample some honey!

08/07/2026

KAH is at the Golden Falcon Field from 10 to 3 today and tomorrow! Come on by! We have the the latest newsletter available, and honey harvested just a few weeks ago!

07/27/2026

The gardens maintained by residents of Stuart Farm are really blooming this year!

06/26/2026

It's a challenge for people who both work and live in the area to compete with New Yorkers for housing - especially when it is scarce. There are numerous examples of what once would be affordable 'starter homes' getting million dollar makeovers - or being torn down and replaced with a much grander home.

We're eager to build an affordable home or two in Kent, as many towns around us have done with donated lots. If anyone has a lead on a buildable lot, please contact us.

https://www.newstimes.com/data/article/new-yorkers-22-billion-connecticut-property-22319025.php

06/23/2026

On June 22nd, members of NWCT land trusts and affordable housing organizations met in Norfolk to discuss progress towards shared goals, and attend the ribbon cutting for Haystack Woods, a development of 10 net-zero affordable homes.

The Haystack Woods parcel consisted of a gravel pit surrounded by undeveloped forest. The Foundation for Norfolk Living worked with their P&Z commission to allow increased density so that a meaningful number of homes could be built within the footprint of the gravel pit - allowing the undeveloped forest to be donated to the local land trust.

A much needed soaking rain was falling, but we were all kept dry under the solar panels - which serve as the roof for the development's two carports.

This exactly the type of partnership and development envisioned by the Northwest Connecticut Affordable Housing and Conservation Strategy - https://cho.thehousingcollective.org/impact/northwest-connecticut-affordable-housing-and-conservation-strategy

06/22/2026

Thanks to the Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation for a very generous grant supporting soil testing at South Common Expansion - a key step toward construction of 13 new affordable homes in Kent.

06/16/2026

Connecticut ranked 46th in the Realtor.com ranking, placing it among a "stagnant bottom" tier with New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, California and Hawaii. The ranking weighs two factors equally: home prices relative to median incomes and the pipeline of new housing construction.

https://www.ctpost.com/realestate/article/connecticut-46th-affordable-housing-realtor-com-22305476.php

Connecticut ranked among a "stagnant bottom" tier with New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, California and Hawaii.