Housing affordability and community vitality

Woodstock should be a place where working families can afford to put down roots, where young people who grew up here can stay, and where seniors can age in place without being priced out of the community they built. That requires an honest acknowledgment that housing in Woodstock — like much of Connecticut — is becoming less affordable, and that local land use decisions shape who can live here.

We support zoning and planning policies that expand housing options without sacrificing our rural character, and we encourage the town to actively explore the tools available under state law to make housing more accessible to working families, young people, and seniors.

A town that cannot house its teachers, its young families, or its aging residents is not a town that is planning for its future. Housing affordability is not just an economic issue — it is a question of what kind of community we want to be.