Wallingford Receives $1.3M State Grant

WALLINGFORD, CT — Wallingford will receive a $1.3 million state grant for renovations at the John Savage Commons senior housing complex. Gov. Ned Lamont and Connecticut Department of Housing (DOH) Commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno recently announced that $13 million is being awarded to 13 municipalities in Connecticut to provide infrastructure upgrades that will modernize and rehabilitate housing for low and moderate-income individuals.

Awarded through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Cities program, which is administered by DOH with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, eligible projects must be in a municipality with fewer than 50,000 resident and have a focus on improving neighborhoods, eliminating blight, and attracting economic development.

“These grants go a long way toward improving neighborhoods so that we can make our communities more attractive and encourage continued growth for the benefit of all of our residents,” Lamont said.

Mosquera-Bruno said, “These awards will help to improve the lives of Connecticut residents. Whether it’s helping a family to complete essential renovations on their homes such as repairing a leaking roof, making a senior living facility ADA compliant, or improving the habitability of a domestic violence shelter – CDBG Small Cities funding is an important program. This federal funding is essential to low and moderate income residents and without these dollars, we would likely be unable to assist as many of our low and moderate income residents as they make these kinds of repairs.”

Wallingford will receive $1,348,720 in this round of CDBG grants for John Savage Commons.

“The town will undertake the modernization of this complex,” officials wrote in a news release. “Work will include the site improvements, roof replacement, new windows, new site lighting, fire alarm system upgrades, replacement of exterior siding, installation of a backup generator, replacement of all hot water heaters, and various ADA improvements throughout the complex.”