No children allowed. Are wealthy CT towns building elderly housing to keep out poor families?

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Heart and lung afflictions have Dave D’Amelio struggling to get around these days.

Climbing the hills at his public housing complex with his portable oxygen tank in tow often leaves him fighting to breathe. There’s no elevator, and the lift that gets him to his second-floor apartment occasionally breaks, so he carries his cell phone everywhere in case he gets stuck. When he needs to do laundry, he rolls his basket down the hill to where his car is parked and drives it to the building with the machines, rather than walk it up the hill to the next building over.

This 71-year old retired bartender worries about how he is going to navigate the complex and his tiny, 250-square foot efficiency apartment — with its steep doorway lip and a screen door that won’t stay open — if he eventually needs a wheelchair.

His complex is reserved for the elderly, though some residents joke that the original owner built the complex to have somewhere to put his mother, whom he didn’t like very much.

Read more: https://ctmirror.org/2021/06/20/no-children-allowed-are-wealthy-ct-towns-building-elderly-housing-to-keep-out-poor-families/