Information from EvictionHelpCT.org

• Eviction Help - Providing Help to Eligible Tenants Facing Eviction or Loss of Housing Subsidy (CT Right to Counsel Program)

• Top Ten Housing Myths

• Tenants' Rights: Repairs

• Your Rights When Your Landlord Is In Foreclosure

• Are You Having Problems With Your Housing Authority or Subsidized Housing?

• Utility Problems with Landlords

• Are You Facing Eviction?

• Lockouts: Can My Landlord Lock Me Out?

• Tenants' Rights: Rent Increases and Fair Rent Commissions

• A Guide to Mediation in Eviction Cases

• Have You Been Ordered to Move Because Your Apartment Is Not Safe? A Renter's Right to Relocation Assistance

• Know Your Rights: Sexual Harassment and Housing

• Renters Have Legal Rights

• Tips for Renting After Eviction

• A Renter's Rights During and After Foreclosure

• Special Protections for Seniors and Disabled Tenants

• Tenant's Rights: Security Deposits

• Tenant's Rights: Repairs

Publication from the Citizens Advisory Council for Housing Matters:

Publications from the Office of the Chief State's Attorney:

• Landlord/Tenant Disputes Police Training Manual (2009)
  • Addresses the four types of complaints that are most likely to call for police action.
    • Lockouts and self-help evictions
    • Unlawful entry
    • No-heat and termination of essential services
    • Criminal damage to landlord's property

• Criminal Housing Matters Prosecution Manual (2008)

OLR Research Reports - Office of Legislative Research:

• Issue Brief: COVID-19 Housing Assistance - 2020-R-0314
• COVID-19 Renter Assistance - 2020-R-0137
• COVID-19 Assistance for Homeowners and Landlords - 2020-R-0147
• Residential Tenants' Protections During the COVID-19 Pandemic - 2020-R-0124

Miscellaneous

• Connecticut Landlord and Tenant Law with Forms 3d, by Noble F. Allen (2021).

• The Connecticut Summary Process Manual, by Paul J. Marzinotto (2002).

The above treatises are available at each of your local law libraries.

• Notice Regarding Right to Counsel Program for Eviction Proceedings

• CARES Act Affidavit of Compliance - JD-HM-41

• To determine if a mortgage loan is included in the CARES Act, you may visit the following websites: Fannie Mae Lookup ~ Freddie Mac Lookup ~ HUD Multifamily Housing Property Search  



• September 3, 2020 CT Superior Court Order Regarding Issuance and Service of Executions

• The CDC moratorium ended on August 26, 2021.

• 2024 Acts Affecting Housing and Real Estate (Office of Legislative Research)

• 2023 Acts Affecting Housing and Real Estate (Office of Legislative Research)

• Public Act No. 23-207 - An Act Establishing a Tax Abatement for Certain Conservation Easements and Addressing Housing Affordability for residents in the State.

• Public Act No. 22-30 - An Act Concerning Fair Rent Commissions (Effective Oct. 1, 2022)

• Public Act No. 21-34 - An Act Concerning the Right to Counsel in Eviction Proceedings. . .

• 2022 Public Acts Affecting Housing and Real Estate

• 2021 Public Acts Affecting Housing and Real Estate

Selected Statutes:

Title 47a. Landlord & Tenant

Chapter 830 Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant

• Sec. 47a-4. Terms prohibited in a rental agreement.

• Sec. 47a-4c.  Landlord prohibited from requiring electronic funds transfer as exclusive form of payment. 

• Sec. 47a-7. Landlord's responsibilities.

• Sec. 47a-7a. Landlord and tenant responsibilities re bed bug infestations.

• Sec. 47a-11. Tenant responsibilities.

• Sec. 47a-15. Noncompliance by tenant. Remedy of breach by tenant. Landlord's remedies.

• Sec. 47a-16. When landlord may enter rented unit.

• Sec. 47a-18. Judicial relief if tenant refuses entry.

• Sec. 47a-18a. Judicial relief if landlord unlawfully enters.

• Sec. 47a-19. Rental agreement: Acceptance of rent when overdue.

Chapter 831 Security Deposits

Chapter 832 Summary Process (Eviction)

• Sec. 47a-23.  Notice to quit possession or occupancy of premises. Form. Delivery. Federal termination notice.

• Sec. 47a-23a. Complaint.

• Sec. 47a-23b. Service of notice to quit or summons if lessee a nonresident or if whereabouts unknown.

• Sec. 47a-23c. Prohibition on eviction of certain tenants except for good cause.

• Sec. 47a-26. Failure to Appear. Judgment.

• Sec. 47a-26a. Failure to Plead. Judgment.

• Sec. 47a-26j. Records of Summary Process Actions (2024 Supplement)

Chapter 833 Entry and Detainer

Chapter 833a Public Enforcement of Health and Safety Standards in Tenement and Boarding Houses, and in Rented Dwellings

Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being

• Sec. 19a-109. Heating and provision of utilities for buildings. Hot water. Termination of services

Title 8. Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

• Chapter 135 Uniform Relocation Assistance Act
  "The purpose of this chapter is to establish a uniform policy for the fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced by the acquisition of real property by state and local land acquisition programs, by building code enforcement activities, or by a program of voluntary rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements conducted pursuant to governmental supervision."

Title 53a - Crimes

Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses

• Sec. 53a-117e. Criminal damage of a landlord's property in the first degree: Class D felony.

• Sec. 53a-117f. Criminal damage of a landlord's property in the second degree: Class A misdemeanor.

• Sec. 53a-117g. Criminal damage of a landlord's property in the third degree: Class B misdemeanor.

• Sec. 8-68f-1 through Sec. 8-68f-22. Tenant Rights in State Public Housing

• Sec. 17-30. Summary Process; Default and Judgment for Failure to Appear or Plead

• Sec. 17-53. Summary Process Executions

Title 42, Chapter 135: Residency and Service Requirements in Federally Assisted Housing

• Subchapter I - Standards and Obligations of Residency in Federally Assisted Housing

• Subchapter II - Authority to Provide Preferences for Elderly Residents and Units for Disabled Residents in Certain Section 8 Assisted Housing

• Subchapter III - Service Coordinators for Elderly and Disabled Residents of Federally Assisted Housing

• Subchapter IV - General Provisions

• Subchapter V - Safety and Security in Public and Assisted Housing

Title 42, Chapter 8: Low-Income Housing
 

• Recent Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Court Landlord/Tenant Opinions
  (From the Law Libraries' NewsLog)