Supposedly one of the Memphis officers is from CT

It wasn’t though. They hammered the life out of that bill. And CT tort law lets them do anything.

If anything, the bill created a new category of immunity and more protections, by accident. A lot of tired people got pushed around in a n all night session of the legislature. Connecticut police get away with a lot of corruption because they don’t shoot people as much as they do in, say, Texas or Alabama, or some counties in California, etc

Try holding one accountable. Good luck

This is coming from the people who are too timid to arrest their own troopers for shoplifting or running people off the road? Who lobbied for FOI exemptions and softer accountability? What hypocrisy. They can stuff it.

Rovella is a liar who doesn’t keep his word to anyone, including victims

This is not that uncommon. I mean the sheer number is, but… Police do it to targets for lots of different reasons. They know you might believe one false arrest but no one believes you on two or three, unless they really know the criminal justice system. There is even a name for it among defense lawyers: “recidivist innocent.”

Wall Street loves it - horrible content no one will read but so cheap to produce.

Are the taco trucks on Long Wharf? If so they are a great option.

Also a great option is Wooster Street, which is nearby and the location of some of the best pizza in the country, the famous pizza places are there. Nice ambience too, several restaurants on Wooster St

Oh, good to know.

The street needs major overhaul

Simpler explanation: it’s a state road, not town. CT DOT is 50 years behind the times.

It’s designed badly. If it’s going to be a boulevard it needs very wide lush island in the middle, like Ocean Ave in Brooklyn. It needs bulked up to the max pedestrian crossings. Yeah. Pedestrians are reckless in Whalley but try being one. Live off Whalley without a car for a week and get to know how long a walk it is to the cross walks.

Or, It needs dedicated bike lanes and maybe even parallel roads on each side for local traffic, bikes and pedestrians. It’s too wide

It needs to be more like this:

https://bklyner.com/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-ocean-parkway-kensington

Also, make it curvier, make it narrower, double the number of crosswalks

It’s not like safer roads are a mystery. There has been tons of work in that area of study in recent decades.

I wondered too, did a search on the name and prospect st. Also considered hillhouse avenue but nothing came up. I wonder if the house is now gone, but let’s not think that yet.

That building looks very familiar but I can’t place it

I’m probably just imagining it though. New haven colony historical society might know, and the New Haven Museum. It has nice historical archives

Union league has shitty service??

LCI used to be a little better.

In the case where they are renting out each room in, say, a three bedroom apt, the landlord is increasing the revenue from the apartment.

That’s a formula being used often now for newly developed, student focused apartment complexes.

If you’re running a private equity fund, those rules will bring the landlord’s costs down, not necessarily the rent. They have to mandate affordable units or the city won’t get them, unless and until inventory outstrips demand.

I couldn’t find a solid report on number of new units after a quick look ( I’m sure there is one somewhere) but just skimming news articles, 1000 is low, it looks more like 1000 a year

What do you mean “ New Havener focused?”

It’s quite evidently not. Again, the median income is $29k for individuals, $48k for households. Most of the apartments in this building are affordable to high tech Yale bio/hospital employees and their spouses and others from NY metro, maybe Stamford, Boston metro, who want a break from high rents in those cities.

To say this with a straight face is rather remarkable.

Is there a better way? Maybe yes, maybe no, but if no, let’s not then pretend it’s a yes to make ourselves feel better.

Luxury apartment developments are functioning as a magnet for out of towners, rather than what was first hoped — a damper on rising prices — so, though there is a crazy building boom going on, the occupancy rate remains high, prices are going up, not down, and the NYT is saying New Haven is awesome, hottest thing this year and you should move there or visit.

This is kicking people in the face who are at the median income or below. It’s doing nothing for them, yet, nor, I suspect, is it meant to. No matter how hard city hall tried, the market forces prevailed, and in the lower Dixwell/hospital areas/ edge of Newhallville where Yale wants to expand its bubble, they are prevailing too.

Yale has also found ways to remove some multifamily housing off the tax rolls in past years too. They do pay taxes on a lot of their non academic property but when they can, they have found ways to pull buildings off the rolls that had been on the rolls. (Including by evicting long time tenants who are not Yale affiliated)

Not to be too town/gown, but something has to give. We need real rent control in New Haven. The market and inclusive zoning isn’t going to do it

Without requiring affordable units, lifting those rules makes housing more expensive, except when excess inventory drives the price down.

For instance, some landlords are renting rooms in apartments now instead of apartments, allowing them to get far more for the apartment than if they rented the apartment as a whole. All of those size and footprint breaks would do the same—-allow gouging in the absence of excess inventory or requirement for affordable units.

Many of New haven’s landlords are private equity funds. They’ll mug your grandmother if you aren’t looking

It’s also a misconception that because Boomers were not the initial movers, they therefore had no part of It when it indeed defined them. Who do you think the millions were who marched in all those protests, attended all those concerts. Who was the audience embracing and supporting and being inspired by all those initial movers? Did you march in any protests and attend concerts when you were 16,18,20? So did they.

Student occupation of Columbia U? All Boomers. National guard occupation at Kent State? Responding to Boomers. Dead students at Kent State? Boomers. Don’t overwork the mild point some writers have tried to make about the initial movers. Jerry Garcia was older than the cutoff date, but had band members who were younger. I fail to see a meaningful cultural or generation gap between members of the GD.

Finally, they were drafting for Vietnam up to 1952 birth dates and registering people for it through 1956 birthdates. I defy anyone to claim Vietnam and the draft protests were not a part of it.

It was a boom in population and a cultural era that ended with the election of Reagan.

I didn’t come to start an argument and I resent the nit picking

That’s bananas. The hippies were Boomers. Just nonsense. Just stop it.

I think there are alternative building types that can be more affordable but even they might be a bit risky these days because a lot of them are going up in price too plus getting and paying a contractor/crew and the cost of site work etc. I am thinking of modular, kit homes, stuff like that. You have to really research it.

I realize it’s been really messed up for anyone coming of age since the 2008 downturn, if not before, and it infuriates me and all my Boomer peers.

If it’s not inflated tuition and predatory student loans, it was until recently, horribly suppressed wages and now a housing shortage. It’s crazy unsustainable and horribly unfair. And we aren’t all sitting pretty in giant garrison colonials worth 900k that we bought for $100k, either.

Boomers? Would that include Bernie and kincevich and jerry brown and Liz Warren and every other Boomer who has fought for reform for the past 50 years? Can we get a break from this blood lust on the boomers? Half of us didn’t vote for Reagan

I've lived there, by the way, just not recently

Well, in New Haven's case, inclusion of lower income units gets you tax breaks, and allows you to build more units and smaller units to make up for it. It also lets you out of minimum parking I think. It gives you some footprint room. We just have to wait and see if it works for New Haven, because not all of the city is zoned this way and if you want to get out of it, you can pay the city $160K or something like that, and if it "works" whether it will utlimately house people more affordably than the city has in the past

Will you be Yale affiliated? Yale has lists of apartments. Check their websites. Also, there are Yale groups that share apartments lists, like International postgrads. Ask around, I don’t have a link as it’s been many years. The Yale Reddit sub might know. And not all the Yale lists are Yale exclusive.

Also some people advertise their rentals on Facebook marketplace