FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Joe O’Leary | Joe.OLeary@cga.ct.gov | 508-479-4969

January 15, 2025

SENATOR ANWAR RELEASES STATEMENT REGARDING PROPOSED BILLS TO ELIMINATE OR DISINCENTIVIZE CRUMBLING FOUNDATION POLICIES

Today, State Senator Saud Anwar (D-South Windsor) released the following statement in response to two proposed bills introduced to the legislature that seek to respectively end and disincentivize state policies that fund the state’s crumbling foundation relief program. The bills, if passed, respectively fully remove a $12 annual surcharge on homeowner insurance policies or make it voluntary.

“Crumbling foundations have impacted thousands of homeowners across north-central Connecticut. They don’t discriminate based on political affiliation or identity; the free market has decided those who suffer damages are on their own. We have a collective responsibility in our state to support every resident, not just some, especially in the event of disaster, which is why the crumbling foundations policies exist and have provided tens of millions of dollars of aid. These bills to remove those programs would harm homeowners, municipalities, tax collection and our communities as a whole. Short-sighted, selfish policies that provide a whopping $12 in savings to homeowners in exchange for allowing countless people to continue to suffer without support should not receive an ounce of consideration. I’m disappointed that they were even considered, much less submitted, in this legislative session.”