Amidst controversy over a mysterious memo, the Hartford Housing Authority has been seeking developers to demolish, then rebuild, the city’s final, as yet untouched, low income public housing project – Nelton Court.  Located in the North East neighborhood, Nelton Court is in one of Hartford’s most depressed areas.  But, HHA’s plan for development calls for cutting the number of actual housing units basically in half, from 156 to 80.   HHA claims that 76 units there are currently vacant.   Cutting overall units has been the Housing Authority’s trend.  Hartford is a poorer city today than when most of these projects were built, so the justification for decreasing the number of units is unclear.  Read the full story