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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 18, 2024 9:53 am
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Children urinating into buckets. Mice and mushrooms emerging from floorboards. Showering at Planet Fitness!
The first public hearing on the mayor’s proposed new city budget elicited such horror stories — as members of the public came out en masse to push not just for more affordable housing, but for better government oversight of living standards across existing housing stock.
“I am a part of a group of landlords in the area who help each other out by discussing issues and providing support and guidance to each other,” wrote Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg.
Mandy Management’s Adir Chen wrote that too. So did Julian Cardona and Menahem Edelkopf and Alejandro Soriano and Menahem Lebenhartz and more than a dozen fellow New Haven-area landlords and property managers.
Each “wrote” those same words in individually signed form letters seeking to persuade state legislators to protect their right to evict rent-paying tenants whose leases have expired.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 14, 2024 9:45 am
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Tenants of the Emerson Apartments returned to their residence after work Wednesday evening — not to wind down from the day, but to wind up their landlords’ energy to make their homes habitable again.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 13, 2024 1:43 pm
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Six backyard emergency shelters built without city approval won zoning relief Tuesday night — as even rule-abiding commissioners backed the argument that community action should sometimes precede paperwork.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 11, 2024 12:32 pm
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Twenty-six Greater New Haveners at risk of sleeping on the street will have a new permanent “supportive” place to stay — thanks to part of a recent federal funding award targeted to combat homelessness.
President Biden signed passed a bill this weekend to keep part of the federal government funded — and over $4 million of the approved dollars are set to flow to New Haven’s efforts to house the homeless and feed families.
As executive director of New Haven’s Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) and drop-in center, Steve Werlin has seen firsthand the state’s “historic” rise in homelessness. He told state legislators about that — to urge them to find extra money this year to help front-line agencies like his save lives and work toward solutions.
The housing authority has officially purchased two Fair Haven Heights properties by the Quinnipiac River as part of its latest effort to redevelop long-underused city plots into new places to live.
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Laura Glesby |
Feb 29, 2024 4:19 pm
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Ray Boyd knows what it’s like to come home after decades in prison without support or guidance on how to rebuild his life.
Two years later, he and his wife Jackie James are trying to provide a better homecoming for others — by transforming James’ childhood home into a transitional home for people re-entering society.
The work of excavators mixed with officials’ visions of bustling downtown blocks Wednesday as New Haven started rebuilding a new stretch of State Street — or rebuilding a version of the old one.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 26, 2024 9:29 am
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The city’s fifth tenants union has formed, marking the first time New Haven residents have organized formally to bargain with a property owner that isn’t megalandlord Ocean Management.
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Laura Glesby |
Feb 23, 2024 9:43 am
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“We have human rights,” Edgar Becerra called into a bullhorn, speaking in Spanish. “We have a heart.”
He was surrounded by over 25 immigrant rights activists outside the Branford headquarters of his Fair Haven landlord and former employer — who brought him to the U.S. as a temporary worker, allegedly fired him for work-related injuries, and is now trying to evict him a second time.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 22, 2024 10:25 am
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The Fair Rent Commission ordered an invisible landlord to charge invisible rent until they reconcile 12-year-old complaints lodged by a long-term tenant.
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Laura Glesby |
Feb 21, 2024 6:21 pm
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Two affordable housing developments are a step closer to materializing in the Hill, along with the nearby revival of the old Coliseum site, thanks to approvals from the Board of Alders.
For the first time, the Housing Authority of New Haven is providing site-based housing vouchers outside of the Elm City itself, covering 40 low-income apartments in the town of Branford.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 14, 2024 5:00 pm
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An affordable housing group has spotted space for nine new nests to accommodate Firebirds and lower-income renters on Orchard Street — but hopes the city will find room in its zoning regs for the dense development.
The City Plan Commission voted to recommend lifting some restrictions on Accessory Dwelling Units — but maintaining a requirement that owners live on the property.
Troy Streater turned the key to the Lloyd Street apartment door, walked inside, and inspected the fresh gray paint job he’d recently commissioned so new tenants can move in.
Hours later, he arrived at the 180 Center to make his trademark hazelnut coffee for clients who have no apartment to sleep in.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 6, 2024 5:51 pm
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Lenox Street residents said they couldn’t get through to their landlord to report rodents, water damage and trash pile-up — so they formed a union and pasted their collective complaints to Ocean Management’s front door.
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Laura Glesby |
Feb 6, 2024 2:06 pm
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A landlord has to start all over again if he still wants to evict two of the Guatemalan temporary workers he brought to Fair Haven to work at his painting company.
An abandoned lighting manufacturing hub will soon transform into 150 below-market apartments a block from Union Station, if a development plan comes to fruition.