Hugh Bailey CT Insider Maybe they bike to work but those bikes would have to have been made by a polluter who made a profit and, well, we certainly can't have that.

Hugh Bailey CT Insider It would be tremendously helpful if environmental advocates such as Save the Sound would proactively step up and counter 'local opponents loudly and vaguely citing environmental harms.'

Anika Singh Lemar CT Insider This in particular is a bad look. We're talking about homes

‘the protests are robbing my Columbia students of listening to John Cage’s 4’33, the piece of music that is explicitly designed to force you to listen to…what’s around you.’ absolutely perfect

Love this. nj.com/opinion/2024/0…

'You can't build near a school, because residents of a new apartment complex would be able to see that school' is an actual argument advanced against housing construction. courant.com/2024/04/21/aft…

Professor Anika Singh Lemar joins Connecticut Public to discuss Connecticut’s affordable housing crisis.
ctpublic.org/show/the-wheel…

'We are on the verge of doing nothing to create more affordable housing for the second year in a row, again, in the middle of a housing crisis. This is unfathomable.'

ctmirror.org/2024/04/18/ct-…

Also the single most overused word in Connecticut housing journalism is 'controversial.'

This is absurd logic. If I said, 'well, some neighborhoods don't want the fire hydrants, and we don't want to dictate,' you'd correctly call me an idiot. We are in a housing crisis, and we're letting a vocal minority of homeowners scuttle any effort to fix that.

'Republicans, for their part, don't usually need to do much heavy lifting to kill controversial housing bills as Democrats from rich towns do it for them.'

This was fun. It'll re-air tonight at 8 pm on WNPR or you can catch the podcast at your leisure.

Here in Connecticut we have Democrats advocating for -- taking the lead on -- 'pausing' enforcement of school desegregation laws.

'op-ed' or 'community viewpoint' or 'Your opinion is welcome, too!' is not an excuse not to fact-check.

At this point these programs are more about full employment for lawyers and planners than they are about housing.

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