Here's an op-ed from Kayla Giordano from our coalition partner @pschousing.bsky.social. CT hosted YIMBYtown the largest pro-homes conference in the U.S. but instead of taking the lead on housing, our state is falling behind. Gov. Lamont, where is the special session? ctmirror.org/2025/09/26/y...

And for Connecticut folks - it’s worth reflecting that, to my knowledge, no member of our state Department of Housing attended either. A real missed opportunity for our leaders to learn from other states who have successfully passed impactful housing policy

Lots of conversations at #yimbytown2025 about building as the solution to our housing crisis. Excited to moderate a panel tomorrow that expands our discussion to how models of community ownership are key to ensuring that everyone can access safe, stable and affordable homes! @yimbytown.bsky.social

Super excited to be moderating a session at #YIMBYtown2025 on the intersection of abundance and social housing in less than a month! Check out the full conference schedule here: yimby.town/schedule-2/

a little iced chai, a little work, The Cure playing on the coffee house radio - just like heaven ✨

Welcome back, my sweet princes. COYS!

if a content creator posts a recipe that doesn’t include heavy cream someone from Instagram comes to their door and shoots them in the head

time to admit im a fed (fed up with unaffordable housing)

Give Lamont hell so that other blue state governors are afraid to veto pro-housing bills, IMO

🚨 Governor Lamont’s veto of H.B. 5002 is a setback for families, renters, and businesses across CT. With no action this session, the housing crisis deepens—and thousands remain without relief. It’s time for bold, urgent solutions. Read the Partnership's full statement: t.congressweb.com/w/?VJMUK

Gov. Lamont has talked a big game about how Connecticut can be a safe haven for people whose rights are at risk. At yet, where are all the people we want to protect supposed to live if we can’t build and maintain affordable housing? The cognitive dissonance is just mind boggling.

Late night appreciation post for @kaylagiordano.bsky.social for this killer chart. I reference this all the time PS - We used to build so much housing in CT, we didn't need to stop!

🔔CT housing folks and urbanists!🔔 Please contact Governor Lamont and support HB5002—it only takes a few minutes and will let him know that unhinged NIMBYs aren’t the only people in Connecticut

Big day for Robert’s around the world!

overheard some folks at a conference I'm attending in Denver lamenting that their Uber from the airport was $100 me: oh! when you head back take the train from Union Station, it takes you right to the airport and it only costs $10! them: oh thanks but Uber is much easier! me:

from now on when I’m overwhelmed by world badness I’m just gonna start listening to This Year over and over again until I feel better lol

Thanks @ctmirror.org for sharing my opinion piece yesterday! Let's pass #JustCause eviction protections this session while we work on other policies to increase #housing supply in Connecticut.

When I say, "I'm about that life," the life I'm referring to is eating cookies.

I took a quick ride on the Northeast Regional into Boston this morning to attend a discussion on a new book by @jonathantarleton.bsky.social on social housing. Great to be in community with so many folks interested in models of #housing decommodification!

Does anyone else hate the Microsoft Word “be more concise” recommendations? I am human, let me yap!!!!

HB 6889 Just Cause Eviction Protections has passed out of the Housing Committee! Huge thanks to the legislators who supported it & to everyone who testified—your voices made this possible. Stay tuned for opportunities to take action in the coming weeks to get this bill across the finish line.

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice.” -Martin Luther King. #NutmegSky #CTPolitics

@agwilliamtong.bsky.social not mincing words: "This is a war on the American people... And I think it’s pretty clear after seven days that President Trump doesn’t just want to remake American culture & society, doesn’t just want to cancel some DEI programs – I think it’s clear he means to hurt us."

“You’re welcome here***” ***as long as you can afford our nation-leading rents and housing prices www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...

Hopped on metro north to check out the current exhibit on home at the Cooper Hewitt museum. Some powerful exhibitions - particularly one on housing after incarceration.

About to write testimony describing my personal experience waiting 30 minutes for Oppenheimer to start while the person next to me ate the most fragrant movie theater hotdog known to man.

Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.

A packed house at the LOB today in solidarity with the CT Tenants Union to pass Just Cause Eviction protections!

I want to (shamelessly) re-up a piece I wrote in 2022 that’s going to be important for 2025. Snob zoning is class warfare, and its defenders use extreme rhetoric about 8-30g “destroying towns” to divide the working and middle class against itself. Don’t let them. www.ctpost.com/opinion/arti...

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

I might pay $700 in HOA fees but at least I don’t need to shovel!

“[T]he lack of affordable housing...undermines the fundamental premise that full-time workers should be able to achieve a decent standard of living for themselves & their families.” heyor.ca/j1j6rO Join us 1/29 to explore deeply affordable housing as a tool for economic growth. heyor.ca/cRHFCf

Community Conversation tonight in Hamden on affordable housing! #NutmegSky #HamdenCT #affordablehousing

I'm proud to share the 2025 policy priorities of @pschousing.bsky.social

Lamont’s speech focused on “affordability and opportunity” and yet mentioned almost nothing about the housing challenges facing CT residents. How are families supposed to access the benefits our state offers if they can’t afford to live here? #NutmegSky

Today marks the first day of CT's 2025 legislative session—and we're ready to fight to make it more possible for every person and family to afford a place to call home. The housing crisis demands bold action now. Learn more about our policy priorities: heyor.ca/0PVNRq

all i want after a long day of work is for my train home to be on time but the Amtrak 475 stays praying on my downfall

I have a lot of conflicting feelings about TTO. It’s great to see low/mod income families getting access to homeownership. But at the same time the state is spending millions of dollars on a program that does address the root reason (no supply!!) that people can’t afford a house to begin with.

With homelessness at a record high and an astonishing *11.4 million* poor renter households now classified as "severely cost-burdened," it’s hard to overstate how catastrophic Trump’s pick to run HUD could be.

hubs and i walk frequently after dinner and we’ve almost been run over twice in as many weeks

With Ridership Increasing, Connecticut Receives $291 Million For Rail Improvements #ctnewsjunkie #ctpolitics

Attended a Guilford Affordable Housing Comm. Meeting tonight and was heartened to see that despite overwhelming attendance by old white people that the convo was overwhelmingly positive

it’s the 2nd day of #CAHC2024 - tune in now to hear Brian McCabe and Eva Rosen talk about their research in The Sociology of Housing! #Nutmegsky

Spokane has passed several upzonings & housing reforms—eliminating parking minimums near transit, increasing height maximums, reducing lot minimums, allowing more missing middle, & expanding property tax exemptions for new apts—and now they have record construction even amidst high interest rates

“If you are wedded to local control you are not serious about solving the housing crisis.”- @jerusalem.bsky.social saying what Connecticut policymakers need to hear at #CAHC2024

#CAHC2024 THE CT AFFORDABLE HOUSING CONFERENCE KICKS OFF TOMORROW! The next two days will offer a diverse array of sessions tailored to advocates, policymakers, housing and service providers, lenders and funders, and the public. ALL ARE WELCOME AND IT'S VIRTUAL! Don't miss it: heyor.ca/QUBInK

The free CT Affordable Housing Conference is NEXT WEEK! Still time to register and hear from some amazing practitioners and experts on housing including @jerusalem.bsky.social from The Atlantic! Register here: events.zoom.us/ev/Alf3E5zss...

"Two weeks ago, I sold a home on Clark Ridge. There were 17 offers. It went for $140,000 over asking,” says Zubretsky. “There have to be new homes built. There’s no other way around it.” www.wfsb.com/2024/11/12/i...