1. (a) When the entity elects to commence a new tenant applicant application period, the entity shall announce notice of such action in accordance with the advertising and marketing activities described in the latest approved affirmative fair housing marketing plan.
2. (b) Entities that elect to market on a continuous basis may, in lieu of the notice referenced in subsection (a) of this section, include in such continuous marketing materials or in the application, notice of the schedule by which application periods open and close.
3. (c) Entities shall schedule application periods as frequently as necessary to manage their waitlist with sufficient applicants to ensure timely occupancy of vacant units or participation in the program administered by the entity in available housing opportunities.
4. (d) All application periods shall have clear opening and closing dates. After the closing of any application period, entities shall use applications received during that period to generate a waitlist as set forth in section 8-37ee-803(b) of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies. When an application period is closed, the entity shall not take additional applications and shall notify anyone inquiring about occupancy of the closure.
5. (e) Entities shall append a waitlist generated from a new application period after the last applicant in the existing waitlist with applicants from the new application period to follow, in numerical order, after previously existing entries.
6. (f) An entity may close the application period prior to the application deadline for one (1) or more unit sizes when the number of applications received exceeds the number of housing opportunities available by at least three (3) times, and at least twenty (20) percent of applicants are least likely to apply, as defined in the entity’s affirmative fair housing marketing plan. The entity may include in the notice of the opening of the application period that the application period may be closed early. The entity shall publicize any early closure of the application period in the same manner the notice of the opening of the application period was publicized, in accordance with the entity’s affirmative fair housing marketing plan.

(Effective February 4, 2025)