Hartford Ordered To Pay $6.25 Million To Displaced Tenants

A judge has ordered the city to compensate hundreds of Hartford families after it violated a decades-old agreement requiring it to provide financial assistance to tenants displaced by fires or forced out by unlivable conditions.

The city must pay $6.25 million to 1,690 households that were ordered to vacate between January 2010 and September 2015. Eligible residents will have 12 months to make a claim for the money from the time Hartford pays its first installment on Nov. 18.

Mayor Luke Bronin said Wednesday that the city will appeal the decision.

From January 2010 to August 2013, the city ordered about 850 families and individuals to vacate their homes due to unsafe conditions. Attorneys for Greater Hartford Legal Aid, which brought the case to court in 2013, said fewer than 100 of them received assistance.

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