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Resident Suki Godek outside her Catholic Worker House "tiny" home.
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At DESK's drop-in center.
The following release was submitted by the Wessel Fund:
The Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen and Amistad Catholic Worker are this year’s recipients of the Unsung Heroes Award from the Irmgard and Morris Wessel Fund.
by | Feb 3, 2025 10:33 am | Comments (10)
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Cherif, with Scotch: Stipulation reached, eviction trial avoided.
(Updated) A mom of three young disabled children can stay in her Orchard Street apartment through the end of May — per a court-mediated agreement she struck with her landlord on the day her eviction case was set to go to trial.
by | Jan 31, 2025 3:14 pm | Comments (13)
Friday's blaze, as documented by @NewHavenFire on X.
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Property manager David Kone: No comment.
Displaced tenant Anthony Bruton: "The smell was so strong."
Another apartment building owned by Bethany-based landlord Jianchao Xu burst into flames Friday morning — displacing a half-dozen tenants, including Anthony Bruton, who rushed to safety after an overwhelming smell of smoke wafted up into his second-floor apartment.
by | Jan 24, 2025 3:19 pm | Comments (28)
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The latest design for 450-ish apartments planned for State St.
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Newman Architects' Paul Santos: Looking for mix of traditional and modern.
(Updated) A development team’s plan to build nearly 450 apartments atop a publicly owned parking lot on State Street inched forward — with a second community meeting, a refined design and an estimated price tag of $125 million.
Continue reading ‘State St. Parking-To-Housing Plan Advances’
by | Jan 23, 2025 5:31 pm | Comments (9)
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CTTU Vice President Luke Melonakos-Harrison at the mic, fighting for "for housing stability, for dignity and respect."
(Hartford) New Haven’s tenants union leaders are back at the state Capitol for the second straight year to push for limits on landlords’ ability to evict tenants — and they’re hoping this session goes better than the last.
by | Jan 22, 2025 2:44 pm | Comments (23)
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McClune and Schwan: $300 more is too much; Chen: That's the market.
Is Mandy Management raising the rent to align with market rates, or does the megalandlord practically set the market rates?
That question was asked at a Fair Rent Commission hearing on Tuesday evening, at which Lenox Street tenants Douglas Schwan and Natalie McClune succeeded in getting a monthly rent increase knocked down from $300 to $100.
by | Jan 22, 2025 1:42 pm | Comments (16)
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20, 34 Fair St.: Garages demolished, housing to come.
A development team has knocked down two vacant Fair Street garages — as builders move forward with plans to construct 168 new apartments on the housing-rich downtown edge of Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘Fair Street Demolition Clears Way For More Apartments’
by | Jan 20, 2025 11:53 am | Comments (6)
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201 Winchester and 235 Winchester (below), now under new ownership.
For the first time in more than two decades, a vacant lot and an incomplete apartment building on Winchester Avenue are no longer controlled by NFL cornerback-turned-housing developer Kenny Hill.
by | Jan 17, 2025 3:28 pm | Comments (8)
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Mandy Management tenants Noela, Mlebinge, and Jacqueline in the Clarion hotel lobby on Wednesday, waiting to go home.
After a two-night stay in a Hamden hotel, a family of nine Congolese refugees moved back to their Dickerman Street apartment on Friday morning — where, for the first time this winter, the heat came on.
by | Jan 16, 2025 9:44 pm | Comments (27)
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U-ACT protester Mell: “Show me the law telling me I cannot walk up those steps!”
Alexis Terry in the tent on City Hall's first floor.
Four dozen people showed up to City Hall on Thursday night to protest a city policy of issuing 72-hour eviction notices upon discovering outdoor encampments — leaving a symbolic tent outside the mayor’s office after a standoff with police.
by | Jan 15, 2025 1:46 pm | Comments (36)
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Alder Caroline Smith: Let's find a compromise.
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So long, 15 Edwards relief proposal.
The city’s zoning board unanimously rejected a local landlord’s plan to build 23 apartments atop a vacant former Edwards Street firehouse after a marathon hearing saw skeptical neighbors and pro-housing advocates debate over how much density should be allowed in this stretch of East Rock, and across the city at large.
Continue reading ‘Zoners Douse Edwards Firehouse-Apartment Plan’
by | Jan 13, 2025 10:09 am | Comments (14)
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Local investor Roberts: Wanted to buy, but didn't have enough $ for auction deposit.
A Fair Haven foreclosure auction brought out no new bidders — leaving the property to fall into the hands of the federal government, and the current tenant bracing to find a new place to live.
Continue reading ‘Feds Prevail At Quiet Foreclosure Auction’
by | Jan 10, 2025 3:19 pm | Comments (18)
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W. Matthew Harp, right, and his attorney Kirt Westfall.
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The since-cleaned-up backyard of 75 Brewster.
One man’s trash is another man’s tenant’s loose tires, copper pipes, and splintering wooden cart of debris and furniture.
Local landlord W. Matthew Harp floated that idea at a series of back-to-back civil citation hearings involving some of his properties, which saddled him with nearly $20,000 in fines.
by | Jan 9, 2025 12:34 pm | Comments (0)
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"Old," leaving the warming center for a bit: "I try not to complain."
David Cox: "This is not where I want to be."
As the temperature outside dipped into the 20s Thursday morning, David Cox sat inside a Dixwell church extended-hour warming center — his legs crossed, bundled up in a coat and scarf and beanie hat, his walker by his side and a window sill lined with Pothos plants behind him.
He didn’t want to be at that warming center. And he didn’t plan on staying long. But for now, with the weather dangerously cold, it was a safe place to be.
by | Jan 9, 2025 10:51 am | Comments (8)
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Tenant Gabriella B.: Next time, will make sure to get a lease in writing.
A state judge approved the no-fault eviction of an Edgewood family after cautioning both landlord and tenant about the quicksand-like perils of oral, rather than written, leases.
by | Jan 8, 2025 2:50 pm | Comments (4)
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Sherrill Petaway, with uplifting Post-It notes on her scrubs.
Sherrill Petaway has spent years looking for a new home. Since July, she’s been engaged in a boot camp of sorts. One that will bulk up her credit so that she can buy a house — sooner rather than later, she hopes.
The steepest challenge, as her Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven coach and counselor says, is patience.
Continue reading ‘One New Havener’s Hunt For A Home Of Her Own’
by | Jan 8, 2025 9:19 am | Comments (17)
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Alder Caroline Smith (right): "There are lot of different goals in the neighborhood."
A housing meetup at City Hall quickly devolved into a fiery exchange of barbs over whether or not 23 new apartments above a historic firehouse will help or hurt an East Rock block.
Continue reading ‘Developer, Neighbors Clash Before Zoning Vote’
by | Jan 7, 2025 2:06 pm | Comments (1)
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Judge Spader: "This case is hereby dismissed."
A state housing court judge cleared a local megalandlord’s potential criminal record after finding that he complied with the terms of a year-long diversionary program.
Continue reading ‘Ocean Landlord's Criminal Housing Case Dismissed’
by | Jan 7, 2025 11:10 am | Comments (5)
Architectural rendering of Dewitt Street redevelopment.
The redevelopment of a former housing cooperative in the Hill will soon net 64 new (mostly) affordable apartments, with another 40 units set to be renovated over the next two years — thanks to a second alder-approved tax break.
by | Jan 6, 2025 8:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Youth Continuum's Tim Maguire (right): Winthrop Ave. warming center open as of Monday night.
As snow fell and the temperature plummeted, a third city warming center opened Monday night for homeless young adults looking for a place to sleep and stay warm during winter nights.
Meanwhile, two other warming centers will be staying open 24 hours a day until Thursday, as the city has activated its severe cold weather protocol.
Continue reading ‘3rd Warming Center Opens; City Activates Cold Weather Protocol’
by | Jan 3, 2025 12:11 pm | Comments (6)
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Former owner Salas-Romer (center) at 2016 ribbon cutting: Village Suites sold, apartments to come.
A Brooklyn-based landlord has purchased a 112-room extended-stay hotel on Long Wharf for $15 million — and plans to convert the property into apartments.
by | Jan 2, 2025 1:26 pm | Comments (7)
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David Germaine: Transitional housing "gives you a chance to get back on track."
U.S. Sen. Blumenthal (center): Bill's import isn't "abstruse."
Army Reserve veteran David Germaine took a break from applying for jobs Thursday morning to stand alongside the top Democrat on the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee — at a Hill press conference celebrating a bipartisan funding boost designed to help keep a roof over the heads of homeless vets like Germaine.
by | Jan 2, 2025 9:10 am | Comments (2)
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Imperial Gardens: Under new ownership.
A mystery buyer affiliated with a local property manager who used to work for Ocean Management has purchased a 72-unit Westville apartment complex for $10.25 million.
Continue reading ‘Westville Apartment Complex Sold for $10.25M’
by | Dec 24, 2024 9:00 am | Comments (7)
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Firefighter Dan Kislukonin in August at the scene of the second of two fires in two months at the abandoned clock factory.
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The housing authority’s planned redevelopment of a dilapidated clock factory on Hamilton Street will have to wait six months — again — in the wake of a court order issued Friday.
by | Dec 23, 2024 4:10 pm | Comments (1)
The Fresh Starts team, including Marcus Harvin, Diamond Harvin, Talia Cardoba, Bradley Woodworth, Axel Woodworth, Adam Rawlings, and Big Don McDaniel.
On a bone-chilling night, Talia Cardoba spooned spicy chicken onto a heaping plate and handed it to an elf who scurried out of the kitchen.
“Careful, it’s hot,” she said, as the conversation of 16 mothers and their children floated in from the dining room of Life Haven, a 40-bed Ferry Street facility that provides temporary shelter to homeless pregnant women and women with young children.
The occasion was the second iteration of “Dinner & A Movie” hosted by Best Video and Newhallville’s Fresh Starts, a nonprofit founded on the belief that the first step toward helping someone realize their aspirations is nutritional sustenance.
Continue reading ‘Dinner & A Movie Return To Fair Haven Shelter’