HDF Events
16th Annual Benefit Breakfast – Thursday, May 14th, 2026
This year’s event will include a panel discussion on successful strategies for creating affordable homeownership opportunities in Connecticut and New York. These include an increased focus on developing affordable homeownership properties, and innovative homeownership financing programs. Confirmed panelists include Lewis Brown, developer and Managing Partner of Honeycomb Development, and Greg Ugalde, president and chief legal officer of Torrington-based T&M Building Co. Inc., founder and owner of GFU Investments, LLC, and Board Member of Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA).
HDF In The News
HDF Receives $500,000 from The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.
The Housing Development Fund was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority’s HTCC Program. The HTCC (Housing Tax Credit Contribution) Program provides grant funding to organizations like HDF in support of affordable housing initiatives…
HDF Receives $1.1 Million Grant from The CDFI Fund
The Housing Development Fund is delighted to announce that it has received a major grant from the CDFI Fund’s Financial Assistance Program. The grant will allow HDF to offer competitive loans to developers of affordable housing in Eastern Connecticut. Eastern…
HDF’s Joan Carty Quoted in The New York Times
HDF’s Community Land Trust Property featured in The New York Times! Joan Carty discusses HDF’s Community Land Trust project in the South End of Stamford. The project will bring much -needed affordable homeownership to the neighborhood: “A 23-unit condominium now…
HDF Awarded $1.8 Million in Grant Funding from the CDFI Fund.
The Housing Development Fund has been awarded $1,826,265 in grant funding through the CDFI Fund’s Rapid Response Program. The RRP is providing desperately needed capital to CDFIs that serve communities financially devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, the RRP…
HDF’s Joan Carty Featured in Associated Press Article
HDF’s Joan Carty was delighted to be interviewed for an Associated Press feature story discussing the influx of homebuyers from NYC to Fairfield County and the impact on the area’s housing market. To read the full article, visit HERE. To read about HDF’s most recent…
HDF Receives Financial Support from MacKenzie Scott
The Housing Development Fund is immensely grateful to MacKenzie Scott for this extraordinary gift of $ 4 million. This generous gift could not have come at a more important and challenging time, and will greatly assist HDF in our 30 year effort to ensure that…