H.B. 5242: An Act Concerning the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records on Housing

Housing is a basic human right, everyone should have access to safe, affordable housing. Our communities are stronger when everyone has a safe home and the opportunity to succeed.

The ACLU-CT believes that housing a basic human right. Everyone should have access to safe, affordable housing. In Connecticut, residents with a criminal record face over 550 legal barriers to meeting their basic needs, like access to housing, making it difficult to reintegrate into society and to support themselves and their families. Our communities are stronger when everyone has access to a safe home and the opportunity to succeed.

The ACLU-CT envisions a world where everyone — regardless of our race, where we’re born, our gender, whether we have a disability, whether we are living with a record of arrest or conviction, or whether we are a survivor of domestic violence — has equal access to safe, affordable, and stable housing. H.B. 5242, An Act Concerning the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records on Housing, can help us achieve this vision.