HB 5209 Summary

• Allows housing authorities to adopt an "expanded area of operation" beyond their home municipality, enabling them to develop housing projects in other towns with appropriate governance structures.

• Prohibits housing authorities from establishing or maintaining police forces in expanded areas of operation, limiting police authority to the municipality where the authority is located.

• Restricts housing authorities' eminent domain power to their municipal area of operation, preventing property seizure in expanded areas.

• Reorganizes statutory definitions in Connecticut's housing authority laws by renumbering and consolidating terminology related to housing authorities, developers, and housing projects.

• Effective October 1, 2022, amending 13 sections of Connecticut General Statutes related to housing authority jurisdiction and operations.