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Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

Congressionally Directed Spending – Fiscal Year 2026

Listed below are the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies projects Senator Blumenthal has submitted to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senate Appropriations Committee selects the final projects from the projects submitted by all senators. Therefore, neither submission of an application nor Senator Blumenthal’s approved list of projects are guaranteed for final funding.

Projects are listed in alphabetical order.

A Broken Umbrella Theatre – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $4,072,000
  • This project will provide funding to create an arts and culture center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

American Legion Post 17 – Naugatuck, CT    

  • Amount Requested: $400,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovation of facilities.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

American Legion Post 117 – Newington, CT

  • Amount Requested: $32,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility upgrades.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter

Avon Theatre Film Center, Inc. – Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,783,000
  • This project will provide funding for technology upgrades to audio and visual infrastructure.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Barnum Museum Foundation, Inc. – Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $435,000
  • This project will provide funding to support the historic restoration of the Barnum Museum’s original wood entry doors.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Benhaven, Inc. – Wallingford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $100,000
  • This project will provide funding to upgrade an outdoor playground for students with disabilities.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Beulah Land Development Corporation – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,066,000
  • This project will provide funding to increase the supply of affordable housing in the New Haven area.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich – Greenwich, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Capital for Change – Wallingford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding to provide capital for construction financing for affordable homeownership projects.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

City of New Haven – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for affordable housing development.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

City of New London – New London, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,500,000
  • This project will provide funding to support the Downtown New London Revitalization Project.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

City of Stamford – Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,500,000
  • This project will provide funding to rehabilitate the Glenbrook Community Center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Community Health Resources – Enfield, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,740,000
  • This project will provide funding for site acquisition.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Community Mental Health Affiliates – New Britain, CT

  • Amount Requested: $969,000
  • This project will provide funding to demolish and remediate a blighted property on Main Street in downtown New Britain.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Airport Authority – Windsor Locks, CT

  • Amount Requested: $8,538,000
  • This project will provide funding to design and construct building additions at Bradley International Airport.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Association for the Performing Arts – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,076,000
  • This project will provide funding for HVAC upgrades at the Shubert Theatre.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Department of Transportation – Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding to construct safety improvements.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Department of Transportation – Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,500,000
  • This project will provide funding to construct safety improvements.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Historical Society DBA Connecticut Museum of Culture and History – Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for facilities upgrades at the Connecticut Museum of Culture & History.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Housing and Development Corporation – Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,500,000
  • This project will provide funding for affordable housing development.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Covenant Shelter of New London, Inc. – New London, CT

  • Amount Requested: $178,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovations to a homeless shelter.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Eli’s Garden of Healing – Hamden, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,800,000
  • This project will provide funding to construct a healing garden for survivors of violence.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Forge City Works – Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $900,000
  • This project will provide funding for building renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Goshen Housing Trust, Inc. – Goshen, CT

  • Amount Requested: $550,000
  • This project will provide funding to create handicap accessible affordable housing apartments.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Greater Dwight Development Corporation, Inc. – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding to rehabilitate affordable housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut – Ledyard, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,000,000
  • This project will provide funding to develop affordable housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Hilliard-Jones-Cookson American Legion Post 66 – Clinton, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for building renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter

H.O.P.E., Inc. – New London, CT

  • Amount Requested: $500,000
  • The project will provide funding to renovate affordable rental housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

HOPE Partnership – Madison, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,406,000
  • This project will provide funding for affordable housing development.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk – Norwalk, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,020,000
  • This project will provide funding for affordable housing development.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Inspirica, Inc. – Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $481,000
  • This project will provide funding for capital improvements at the Family Emergency Shelter and McKinney House.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Jewish Community Center, Inc. DBA Stamford Jewish Community Center – Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for HVAC system upgrades.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Keeping North Stonington Affordable, Inc. – North Stonington, CT

  • Amount Requested: $550,000
  • This project will provide funding for affordable housing construction and renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Kids in Crisis – Cos Cob, CT

  • Amount Requested: $175,000
  • The project will provide funding for facility renovations at the SafeHaven youth emergency shelter.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Ledge Light Health District – New London, CT

  • Amount Requested: $675,000
  • This project will provide funding for building acquisition and renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Liberty Community Services – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,700,000
  • This project will provide funding for a building rehabilitation project for permanent supportive housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Marrakech, Inc. – Woodbridge, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,200,000
  • This project will provide funding to renovate Marrakech’s administrative building renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Mary Wade Home – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,000,000
  • This project will provide funding to renovate and expand the Boardman Residential Care Home.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Mercy Housing and Shelter Corporation – Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,500,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovation at four sites that serve homeless and low-income individuals.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport, Inc. – Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $877,000
  • This project will provide funding to install a new HVAC system.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Mutual Housing Association of Southwestern Connecticut DBA Connecticut Housing Partners Southport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $27,650,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility acquisition for affordable housing project.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

National Veterans Council for Legal Redress Inc. – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding to rehabilitate a brownstone into affordable housing for veterans.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Britain, Inc. – New Britain, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,800,000
  • This project will provide funding for the design and construction of permanent supportive housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven – New Haven and Hamden, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for the development and construction of affordable homeownership opportunities.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury DBA NEST – Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $250,000
  • This project will provide funding to purchase site for affordable housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

New Britain Housing Authority – New Britain, CT

  • Amount Requested: $4,325,000
  • This project will provide funding to support the redevelopment of the Mount Pleasant Public Housing Development.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

New Britain Museum of American Art – New Britain, CT

  • Amount Requested: $7,392,000
  • This project will provide funding to support facility renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

New Neighborhoods, Inc. – Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $800,000
  • This project will provide funding for affordable housing repairs.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

New Neighborhoods, Inc. – Montville, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for affordable housing development.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

New Neighborhoods, Inc. Newington, CT

  • Amount Requested: $400,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovations and upgrades to Victory Garden, a veterans’ supportive housing development.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

New Opportunities, Inc. – Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for HVAC replacement at New Opportunities’ Human Service Center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

New Opportunities, Inc. – Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,500,000
  • This project will provide funding for construction and equipping of a hydroponic garden.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Northeastern Connecticut Community Development Corporation – Plainfield, CT

  • Amount Requested: $483,000
  • This project will provide funding to support capital repairs.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Operation Hope of Fairfield, Inc. – Fairfield, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,500,000
  • This project will provide funding for the construction of a new facility for essential services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Our Piece of the Pie, Inc. – Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,200,000
  • This project will provide funding to renovate a workforce and education center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Rivera Memorial Foundation, Inc. – Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $600,000
  • This project will provide funding to rehabilitate a property to expand youth programming.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Riverfront Recapture, Inc. – Hartford and Windsor, CT

  • Amount Requested: $13,052,000
  • This program will provide funding for the design and permitting of a community park on the Connecticut River.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Salisbury Housing Committee, Inc. – Salisbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $950,000
  • This project will provide funding for construction of affordable housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

San Juan Center, Inc. – Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,050,000
  • This project will provide funding for the construction of affordable housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

SHEBA Resource Center, Inc. – Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,500,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Special Olympics Connecticut, Inc. – Bristol, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,125,000
  • This project will provide funding for a new Special Olympics Connecticut headquarters.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

St. Vincent de Paul Middletown, Inc. – Middletown, CT    

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for a new social services facility.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Stamford Affordable Homes, Inc. – Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,832,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovations to Friendship House.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc. – New London, CT

  • Amount Requested: $450,000
  • This project will provide funding to expand an early childhood education center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

The Cornerstone Foundation, Inc. – Vernon, CT    

  • Amount Requested: $1,510,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

The Curtis Home/Saint Elizabeth Home – Meriden, CT    

  • Amount Requested: $1,100,000
  • This project will provide funding to renovate the Curtis Home.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

The Housing Collective – Fairfield County, CT

  • Amount Requested: $600,000
  • This project will provide funding for a program to improve housing stability.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of East Hartford – East Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $9,600,000
  • This project will provide funding to replace Fire Station 2.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Windham – Willimantic, CT

  • Amount Requested: $10,000,000
  • This project will provide funding to replace the aging Willimantic Footbridge.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

U Rock Community Development Corporation, Inc. – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,575,000
  • This project will provide funding for the addition of a second story to a men’s shelter.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

United Way of Greater New Haven – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,500,000
  • This project will provide funding to develop affordable housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

University of New Haven – West Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility renovations to establish the University of New Haven Community and Civic Engagement Center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Valley Shore YMCA, Inc. – Westbrook, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,500,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovations at the Valley Shore YMCA.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Vibe Innovations – New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,000,000
  • This project will provide funding to acquire and develop a vacant commercial property into a community hub.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Warren Affordable Housing Corporation – Warren, CT

  • Amount Requested: $800,000
  • This project will provide funding to construct affordable housing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Waterbury Public Schools – Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,959,000
  • This project will provide funding for athletic fields improvements at the Crosby High School/Wallace Middle School complex.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Winsted Health Center Foundation, Inc. – Winsted, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,500,000
  • This project will provide funding for development of a veterans-focused affordable housing, workforce training, entrepreneurship, and technology access center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

West Haven Library – West Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $500,000
  • This project will provide funding for construction of an Allingtown Branch of the West Haven Library.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) of Wallingford, Inc. – Wallingford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for expansion of YMCA of Wallingford’s Community Wellness Center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

YWCA Greenwich, Connecticut, Inc. – Greenwich, CT

  • Amount Requested: $500,000
  • This project will provide funding for drainage improvements.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.