Carabetta’s Muniz: Tax break makes project “pencil out financially.”
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Roth: Builder should pay more.
A proposed tax break for a failed Dwight housing co-op on the brink of demolition and reconstruction moved ahead — after debate about how it fits into efforts to promote affordable housing and avoid a local tax hike.
Besides tax forgiveness, the overall project includes a $1.5 million “development fee” for the co-op’s buyer and $400,000 in federal anti-poverty block grants along with a building contract for a construction affiliate.
Zoning commissioner Paul Schatz and Yale Law student Hannah Abelow at Monday night’s hearing: Is Woodbridge racist?
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Can a town’s laws be racist even if they do not explicitly state: “No Blacks Allowed”?
That question emerged at the latest public hearing over whether to change zoning, and boost affordable housing, in New Haven’s leafy neighbor to the west.
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Feb 22, 2021 1:51 pm
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Swingle and Saphira.
Kevin Swingle and his dog Saphira have been together for three and half years — and thanks to Westville neighbors who got to know them, they’re sleeping indoors for the winter.
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Feb 17, 2021 6:11 pm
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Neighbor Nine Johnson: In support of “anything to help us prosper.”
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558 Winchester Ave.: Now approved for city ownership.
City plans to convert vacant Newhallville properties into affordable owner-occupied homes took another stride forward, as alders signed off on the public purchase of a long-blighted three-family house at the corner of Winchester Avenue and Starr Street.
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Feb 17, 2021 4:31 pm
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New day coming: ConnCAT’s Clemons pitches project at public meeting.
Dixwell Plaza’s planned redevelopment took a key step forward as alders voted to sell two parcels in the decaying mid-century shopping strip to a local team that plans to build apartments, stores, and cultural venues in the heart of New Haven’s historic Black neighborhood.
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Feb 15, 2021 5:18 pm
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Birna Bermudez gets her first delivery from Lucina Capuano.
A visitor came to Birna Bermudez’s home from New Haven’s public schools and dropped off a new form of pandemic assistance: 14 meals’ worth of fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Feb 15, 2021 10:15 am
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Our schools are short-changed by millions.
(Opinion) Educational Cost Sharing (ECS) is a funding mechanism that was intended to level the playing field in funding school districts. Instead, it has benefited majority-white schools.
Local landlord Galina Zalman: “We only use food banks.”
After taxes, utilities, repairs, and tens of thousands of dollars lost through unpaid rent amid the Covid-19 pandemic, landlord Galina Zalman said she made a total of $2,552 in 2020 — sending her to a food pantry as she struggles to keep three local rental properties afloat.
A state judge Friday granted final approval for an $18.75 million class-action settlement that will provide up to $20,000 each to hundreds of tenants displaced from the mold-infested former Church Street South apartment complex across from Union Station.
Her decision marks the end of a four-and-a-half-year legal battle spearheaded by a local civil rights attorney and tenants of the now-demolished former apartment complex, who through years of advocacy succeeded in making their former landlord pay for subjecting them to dangerous living conditions.
