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Join the pro-homes movement in CT! #YIMBYtown2025 is coming to New Haven - stay tuned for details! 🏘️🚍🍕 Links: https://t.co/KBWE8jsqZF
Connecticut, USA
Joined June 2020
SAVE THE DATES! We're thrilled to announce that @DesegregateCT will be hosting the national YIMBYtown '25 Conference in New Haven 9/14-9/16! Stay up to date on https://t.co/ZwYJP4vM6k for more info on registration, speakers, and travel info. Can’t wait to see you there 🏘️ 🚍 🍕
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On our Christmas list this year: 🚍 Dedicated funding for transit ☀️ Renewable energy progress 🏡 Affordable housing development ... and maybe a model train set 🚂 What's on yours?
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✍️ @ccsqrd points out an important reality: now that HB 8002 is passed, we must work on implementation, so that all CT municipalities are standing side-by-side in working towards housing goals. Come 2026, let’s hit the ground running! 💪
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🥊 @mayorcarolineCT reveals a friendly RIVALRY that she and Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling have at the signing of HB 8002, an act concerning housing growth… 👏 Huge thanks to two leaders who take the housing shortage seriously!
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Learn more about the bill here:
rpa.org
Regional Plan Association works toward a better future for the tri-state region
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Young people are being priced out of CT. Hear from college senior Makayla on the issues of finding housing post-grad and how CT has become unaffordable for many graduating students. 📚 HB 8002 is crucial to building a better, more affordable tomorrow. 🏘️
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Mansfield has between 13,000 to 25,000 residents depending if students are at UConn. Betsy McCaughey spoke to 12 Mansfield people who turned out, on the recently signed housing bill HB8002 she continues to rail against on Newsmax Tv. “Joining with Mansfield homeowners to
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👕 After a brief detour, Connecticut Governor Lamont earns it: watch Connecticut Director of the Regional Plan Association Pete Harrison give the Governor a YIMBYtown t-shirt at the signing of HB 8002.
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@senatorduff Everyone is concerned about their ability to afford a home. That’s why leaders of both parties across the nation are working to lower costs for people — HB 8002 is a great example of that work.
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🔥 @senatorduff makes it clear: the housing crisis is a bipartisan issue because it affects all of us.
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🏡 State Rep. Kadeem Roberts speaks about the impactful location of the signing of HB 8002: the Oak Grove affordable apartments in Norwalk, where he spent time in his childhood. He knows firsthand the power of affordable housing, and he’s proud to support HB 8002 for that reason.
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🗣️Connecticut Director of the Regional Plan Association Pete Harrison puts HB 8002 in perspective: it is just as much of a victory for the pro-homes movement as it is for any elected or appointed official in Connecticut.
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Please sign up to register your interest in attending at the link in our bio and we’ll reach out to you soon for more information! 🗓️⏰ January 15th, from 6:30-8:30pm
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This non-partisan training will help land use commissioners understand how the affordable housing crisis and climate crisis are converging + how local land use boards can approach and understand these challenging issues.
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🏡 We’ll be offering a two hour online training session to provide tips and advice on crafting a pro-homes approach for land use commissions! 🧵
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🔴Republican First Selectman of North Haven Michael Freda makes it CLEAR: HB 8002 is a bipartisan bill and preserves local control. 🏡
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❌ ”A municipality will lose discretionary state funding if they do not meet their affordable housing goals" ✅ There is NO point where a municipality will lose discretionary funding.
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"There is great need and great opportunity in this housing shortage," @peteharrison860 said at the HB 8002 signing in CT this week. If we want to address the problem, we need an all hands on deck approach — and the newly signed legislation is part of that.
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Ah yes, the same Bill McKibben who was the keynote of YIMBYtown 2025 in New Haven in September! He understands that transit oriented communities are anti-sprawl and protect nature.
Fact: Beyond already exempted land, the new law opens up much previously undevelopable or low-density "open space" (like undeveloped parcels not formally protected) to housing pressure. This creates an "open season" effect on non-restricted open space, as local controls weaken to
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The environmentalists were with us, because they know that environmentalism means investing in housing and transit.👇
Where were the #environmentalists with HB8002? The law that was just passed does not preserve open space unless it is already protected by an easement or deeded town run open space, or is within a wetland. If we want to expand our wetlands buffers later, we won’t be able to
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