{"id":97,"date":"2012-08-30T20:39:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=97"},"modified":"2012-08-30T20:43:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:43:06","slug":"conn-invests-in-affordable-housing-in-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Conn. invests in affordable housing in &#8220;Gold Coast&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_100\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Joyner_Kendall1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Joyner_Kendall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Joyner_Kendall\" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Joyner-Kendall washes dishes in her public housing home in Stamford. Joyner-Kendall hopes to soon be able to afford to buy her own home.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A commitment by Connecticut to spend $500 million on affordable housing over the next 10 years might help an affordable housing crunch on the the state&#8217;s Gold Coast. Darien has a median home price of more than $1 million, making affordable housing hard to come by. WSHU&#8217;s Kaomi Goetz reports a recent groundbreaking at a development in Darien underscores both the need and the difficulty of creating new units.  Listen here:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/goetz_affordable_120724.mp3'>goetz_affordable_120724<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_82\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/darien_groundbreaking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/darien_groundbreaking.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"darien_groundbreaking\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governor Malloy and other public officials break ground at the Darien housing complex<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 106 rental units and new community center called \u2018The Heights of Darien\u2019 are being built with nearly $30 million dollars in federal and state tax credits. The town is also kicking in local support. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commitment by Connecticut to spend $500 million on affordable housing over the next 10 years might help an affordable housing crunch on the the state&#8217;s Gold Coast. Darien has a median home price of more than $1 million, making affordable housing hard to come by. WSHU&#8217;s Kaomi Goetz reports a recent groundbreaking at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}