by Christopher Peak | Aug 17, 2018 8:00 am
Church Street South’s former tenants can sue the executive in charge of the company that ran their apartments into the ground, but not the shell corporations hidden by another state’s laws.
Continue reading ‘Judge Spares Church Street South’s Shell Corporations’
by Thomas Breen | Aug 16, 2018 7:41 am | Comments (1)
A boarded-up, single-family home in Cedar Hill collapsed on Wednesday when a side wall caved under the pressure of a toppled tree.
by Thomas Breen | Aug 7, 2018 8:14 am | Comments (46)
A Boston-based developer will buy over 300 Ninth Square apartments and keep more than half of them “affordable” in return for a 20-year tax abatement, under an agreement revealed Monday night.
Continue reading ‘9th Sq. Deal Preserves Affordable Housing’
by Christopher Peak | Aug 3, 2018 1:19 pm | Comments (12)
An expert who once helped tobacco companies push back on indoor smoking bans and helped insurers deny reimbursement to car-crash victims has a new mission: testifying that mold at Church Street South didn’t cause widespread health problems.
by Paul Bass | Aug 2, 2018 12:08 pm | Comments (3)
The quest for affordable housing has divided cities like New Haven from suburbs like Branford. But it doesn’t have to, Sean Scanlon says.
He tells a story about his grandfather to explain why.
Continue reading ‘Grandpa Joe Couldn’t Have Afforded The Burbs Today’
by Christopher Peak | Jul 27, 2018 8:08 am | Comments (12)
If Church Street South was such a mess, why didn’t the tenants tell the landlord? Or government inspectors?
Lawyers for Northland Investment Corporation, the Massachusetts-based owner of the former 301-unit federally subsidized housing complex across from Union Station, raise that argument in a new 700-page brief, as they try to dissuade a judge from grouping former tenants together to press their case that the company is responsible for endangering their health and their lives.
by Thomas Breen | Jul 25, 2018 3:56 pm | Comments (7)
The city’s Health Department has found lead paint hazards at two neighboring Exchange Street properties that are home to children with elevated blood lead levels.
Continue reading ‘Same Mandy House Cited Twice For Lead Paint’
by Thomas Breen | Jul 25, 2018 8:20 am | Comments (6)
A Superior Court judge threatened to hold the city in contempt of court if it continues a pattern of providing incomplete and last-minute health and property records to opposing counsel in a West River child lead poisoning case.
by Carly Wanna | Jul 20, 2018 11:37 am | Comments (2)
The Fair Haven Community Health Care Center is one step closer to purchasing a foreclosed property of 342 Grand Ave. for $2,000. Now, all it requires is few more city approvals and hundreds of thousands of dollars for renovations.
by Thomas Breen | Jul 19, 2018 3:22 pm
The City Plan Commission voted to recommend that the city follow through on an application for $4.1 million in federal lead abatement funding, while the chair also cautioned that the city should seek out new sources of funding to confront the citywide problem of childhood lead poisoning.
