New Statewide Polling Shows Strong Support for Renter’s Tax Credit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 3, 2025
Contact:
Meghan Holden, The Connecticut Project Action Fund, meghanholden@ctproject.org

NEW HAVEN – The Connecticut Project Action Fund today released new public opinion polling that shows strong public support for a renter’s tax credit in Connecticut. The research, conducted by New River Strategies between February 14 and 19, included 1,196 likely 2026 Connecticut voters.

S.B. 1, proposed by the Senate Democratic Caucus, and H.B. 5114, proposed by House Majority Leader Jason Rojas, contain provisions to create a renter’s tax credit in Connecticut, under which certain renters would be eligible for refundable tax credits.

Key poll findings include:

• More than two in three likely 2026 voters in Connecticut (68%) support establishing a renter’s tax credit for people with a household income below $75,000 per year, when given a neutral description of the policy.
  
  
• The policy has broad support, with majorities of registered Democrats (84%), unaffiliated voters (61%), and Republicans (52%) all supporting the policy – and majorities of home renters (84%) and homeowners (60%).
  
  
• Seventy-nine percent of likely 2026 voters say policies to lower the cost of housing should be an “extremely” or “very” important priority.
  

“Connecticut voters, renters and homeowners alike, clearly support a renter’s tax credit to make our state more affordable and fair,” said Meghan Holden, director of marketing and communications for The Connecticut Project Action Fund. “Rent is eating up working class people’s entire paychecks, pricing people out of our towns and hurting our local economies. While homeowners can get some tax breaks for housing costs, most Connecticut renters get none. Legislative leaders have taken an encouraging first step by introducing bills containing renter’s tax credit proposals. We strongly urge the legislature to value working class people, fairness, and affordability by passing a strong renter’s tax credit this year.”