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Connelly v. Housing Authority of New Haven, 213 Conn. 354 (1990)

Citation
Connelly v. Housing Authority of New Haven, 213 Conn. 354 (1990)
Parent Document
Connelly v. Housing Authority of New Haven, 213 Conn. 354 (1990)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1990-01-02

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The transactions of this defendant clearly fall within the rationale of Russell. The defendant is subject to pervasive state regulation pursuant to the provisions of chapter 128 of the General Statutes governing municipal housing projects; § 8-38 et seq.; and to pervasive federal regulation pursuant to the relevant provisions of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437 et seq., and its implementing regulations in title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The state statute and the federal regulations set forth in great detail the municipal landlord’s responsibilities and provide carefully balanced procedural and substantive remedies for public housing tenants in a variety of situations.8 These specific statutory remedies carefully balance the rights and obligations of municipal housing authorities and their tenants, and prescribe specific procedures *363designed to implement repair or rehabilitation of dwellings. None of these specific statutory provisions makes reference to CUTPA. The carefully crafted equilibrium between the competing interests of municipal housing authorities and public housing tenants embodied in title 8 and the HUD regulations would be upset by holding that a CUTPA remedy, lacking the procedural prerequisites and specifically tailored remedies of either § 8-38 et seq. or the federal regulations, applies in addition to those remedies.