That's MY mayor 🥹 🥹 🥹 RPA's Pete Harrison spoke to News8 this week about bringing together decision-makers, advocates, and policy experts at @yimbytown.bsky.social — take a look ⬇️

Add New Hampshire to the (increasingly long) list of states taking major action on housing this year! The governor just signed: - Single-stair up to 4 stories - Cap parking mandates @ 1/home - ADU expansion - Residential in commercial zones - Legalizing roommates www.603forward.org/press/housin...

Yup

With Governor Lamont of Connecticut vetoing major housing legislation (HB50002), it is without question that republicans are far better on housing issues at this point, and that makes me very sad.

When the only people applauding you are the state’s Republican leaders… maybe you don’t represent the people who elected you.

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

It took heroic efforts to get HB 5002 through the CT legislature. CT has some of the most expensive suburbs & most restrictive zoning in the US - 2+ acre minimum lot sizes near excellent transit infrastructure & job access. Deeply frustrating to see Gov. Lamont's veto.

Absolute pathetic governor we have in Connecticut. His veto rested on "Towns are trying really hard, I need to give them more time" I'm sorry, the data just doesn't support anything the Governor is saying. We cannot permit our way out of a 400k home shortage without changing anything

Un-fucking-believable cowardice from Gov. Ned Lamont in CT. He just vetoed an incredible housing bill out of fear of a transparently fraudulent, astroturfed opposition campaign. Go ahead & tell him what you think. 860-566-4840

He was asked a lot of times, and a lot of different ways, what exactly he'd like to see housing policy in CT look like and didn't provide a particularly clear answer. Instead, he emphasized his desire for towns to be involved and expressed optimism there's a version of the bill they would support.

Good thread on today's press conference during which CT's governor announced he'd veto a housing bill he previously supported, the most significant piece of housing legislation to cross his desk during his time in office.

Lamont's logic on his HB5002 veto: - We need housing - This bill is good - Some mayors and first selectmen are mad about the bill because of misinformation anti-housing people have been pushing - The things they're mad about are fine, actually - Therefore, I will be vetoing the bill

Blue states not growing means they hand their political power to red states, it really is that simple.

To say nothing of the shockwaves that vetoing HB 5002 will send through state politics in CT, it also means Lamont is hostile to one of the best ways for Democrats to build long term power federally: adding population to Blue states. CT’s housing crisis is already costing it a full seat in Congress.

The veto of HB5002 a 🧵1/ a lot If only we gathered a group of municipal leaders and both sides of the aisle, and advocates and listened to experts . . . Spent six months on the Majority Leader’s Round Table learning how best to move forward in the 2nd most constrained housing market in the country.

Today, Gov. Ned Lamont vetoed HB 5002, a bill that represented an important step forward for housing in CT. The cost of inaction is great. We call on Gov. Lamont to to finish the job on this bill. From @desegregatect.bsky.social @peteharrison860.bsky.social: rpa.org/news/news-re...

Don’t worry, the ban doesn’t impact rest stops on 95, enjoy the gridlock 😘

Connecticut just adopted a MASSIVE pro-housing law that: - Ends costly parking mandates (1st state east of the Rockies to do so) - Incentives transit oriented development & fair share - Allows middle housing in commercial zones - Allows manufactured homes everywhere Go @desegregatect.bsky.social!

Speaking at Yale Innovation Summit today, Gov. Lamont touted CT’s strong job market & vibrant companies. You know what helps keep entrepreneurs & workers in your state? Making it easier to build homes they can afford in every community.

Excited to be launching this at YIMBYtown 2025 in New Haven! And excited to have some submissions from CT 🙏

Connecticut is one of the nation's richest states, yet has seen homelessness surge in recent years. That includes Fairfield County, where one packed shelter sits only a couple miles from the state's wealthiest zip codes. Part 2 of our series on inequality in CT. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

my buddy @resnikoff.bsky.social off the top rope with some actual class analysis www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Feels like there's a lesson in here for just about anyone else, and again, the Feds have very little leverage over the day-to-day operations of the MTA here.

Public housing vs. zoning reform is ABSOLUTELY a false contradiction. When I chaired a public housing authority, we literally could not do what we wanted to do - house more families - with the property we owned. Exclusionary zoning had a massive negative impact on how much we could help.

multiple issues here: -it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders -even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate

Great video on the Northeast Corridor. 1 in 7 United Statesians reside in this area. A vital investment in the country's economic engine means robust rail. (www.fra.dot.gov/necfuture/ab...)

This is exactly what should happen at Simsbury Commons (and most declining malls in CT). Work Live Ride is uniquely designed to help towns do just that: create mixed use walkable neighbors near transit. www.ctinsider.com/farmingtonva...

Passing the bill he wants passed gives him more power. Not passing the bill he wants takes away from his power. Pls stop insulting everyone’s intelligence.

In my completely biased opinion, an excellent successor to @peteharrison860.bsky.social

Nice local article about YIMBYtown 2025 coming to New Haven Sept 14-16! It’s shaping up to be a BFD. Anyone feeling down right now should mark this on their calendar 🤙 yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/01...

On the train so I can’t make this tonight, but spoke at the last meeting on these improvements. Totally reasonable and will make some positive incremental progress, tho the unfunded IZ is counterproductive. Naturally, a small but loud minority will likely try to paint this as the sky is falling 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hi Hartford! I'm thrilled to be catching up with all the good people at @desegregatect.bsky.social during a book Happy Hour on Saturday! I'm going to be hanging out plus talking about Key to the City, which opens in Hartford - & features Colt Gateway & Hooker Brewery. See you soon!

Excited to announce that we are hosting YIMBYtown 2025 in New Haven, CT on Sept 14-16! 🏘️🚍🍕 One step closer to my not-so-secret goal of having the entire national movement adopt “pro-homes” 😊

Please tell me that WSHU did not describe a group of NIMBY segregationists as "housing advocates." www.wshu.org/connecticut-...

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy report found that CT's laws could be used to increase affordable housing through community land trusts. ctmirror.org/2024/12/04/c...

nobody who lost their house in Irene would describe themself as a climate refugee probably, but we had a lot of those bounce around and leave town in 2011 it’s part of the “NY and CA are losing population” story

This is the voice of a person in CT that does not come to planning and zoning meetings or email state reps but 100% represents the majority-view on the housing crisis in CT 😂 Hope to track down this person and get them to come to testify www.reddit.com/r/Connecticu...

“I’m opposed because these apartments will be unaffordable” 🤝 “I’m opposed because these apartments will be too affordable”

Anyone else seeing this ring around the moon? Please tell me it’s aliens. I’m good with that at this point.

Something felt wrong about Bluesky but then I changed my settings to dark mode and I feel great about it. I want brightness in my content, not my screen

Hey all, DesegregateCT is hiring a Program Director. Come build the pro-homes movement in CT! www.desegregatect.org/jobs

Okay, finally on Bluesky. Who else in pro-homes world should I be following?