Does it matter? He gave the order. He isn't interested in doing anything to help people -- he just wants to play Whack-a-Mole with whatever camp springs up. The very existence of a tent city means that he has failed homeless people in New Haven. He knows this and wants to get rid of an embarrassment before he tries for reelection. This camp has been there for years and now its an urgent problem? Its a stunt that will hopefully backfire.

Elicker is a failure of a public servant and this just his way of hiding his failure instead of doing anything to treat the problem. New Haven shelters are overcrowded, dangerous, unsanitary, and degrading -- and his solution is to funnel more people into them? People want to avoid shelters for a reason -- people don't just deny help for no reason. They deny help because they don't trust the city -- and who can blame them?

There will just another camp in a few months. Homelessness is getting worse and worse and it won't go away by dismantling a few tents.

As a former city employee, I can testify that the city is not interested in compassion -- they don't even care about the safety and well-being of their own employees. City Hall is reliably terrible and the public services available to the average person in New Haven is absolutely garbage -- especially compared with Yale.

Yale and New Haven are very different places -- run by and inhabited by very different people.

Good.

Even when they knew they were being removed from the area, why didn't they take their tents with them or clean up the rest of their trash? Instead, tax payers of the city are paying to clean it up.

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/New-Haven-schools-reading-levels-an-17329265.php

"Data offered by Assistant Superintendent of Schools Ivelise Velazquez to the school board shows that only 17 percent of third-graders scored at grade level on this year’s state Smarter Balance Assessment test.
By eighth grade, the percent scoring on grade level rose to 28 percent.
For math scores, 12 percent of students districtwide scored at grade level."

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This is fine.

The report I read was from a different source @/newhavenhousingfund. I am genuinely curious about what was offered by the city.

Also, seems like tent city was up for months and was a place for homeless community gatherings, and food & clothing shares, so I'm assuming they made whichever choice was more beneficial to them at the moment.

And. . . Then there’s the city’s public school system.

NHI article said that social workers had been there all week and they offered to place everyone there. I think most of those people were there because they weren’t interested in help from the city in the past so I wouldn’t be surprised if only one took them up on their help

None of this would have happened without his approval. Just look at NHI to see the damage control his political appointees like Lenny and Mehul are running that spin machine nonstop to try and contain the fallout.

Change your energy supplier. The default supplier is UI and they recently upped their rate to like 23 cents per kilowatt hour. My bill nearly doubled. I changed my supplier to Town Square at around 13c per kWh

Woodbridge and Bethany both go to Amity high school as well

OT, but if anyone is looking for a 4 bedroom/2 bath split between two floors, let me know. July or August start date

I'm under the impression only 1 spot was available, but the report didn't get into much detail.

Did they only have one spot, or did only one person accept the temporary housing when offered?

title makes it sound like he was driving the bulldozer

Also in the same boat as you. I've been looking most days of the week across a few sites just to see when things pop up and what not. I think it's a good idea to start looking now so you can get an idea.

It's sad that the city spent many thousands to tear down these tents while these people are cold and vulnerable instead of offering real housing. Only 1 person from tent city was placed in temporary housing. It's horrific whats being done (I read the report on @/newhavenhousingfund)

Shame on the city and the mayor. Don't want homeless people? Increase affordable and safe housing.

I’ll probably get a bunch of downvotes for this but New haven is so confounding. It comes off like it’s a city of interesting, progressive, intelligent, and creative people but the city itself is run barely competently. It isn’t creative or dynamic. It is utterly lacking in compassion. City hall is kind of reliably nasty in fact. It can’t only be a lack of resources.

Just a few weeks ago alders heard about a homeless man who died on the tracks and about this tent city. You would come away from that hearing thinking this is the absolutely last thing Elicker or the city would do right now but somehow they did, they couldn’t figure out a single thing better than this, and they even had grant money and ideas submitted that about it.

I didn’t vote for Elicker, I am relieved to say.

The title is a little misleading, this short vid contains part of that hearing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9suUcCt0g

If they had set up camp in like the middle of Edgewood ave, then I'd agree

Good. You can't just pitch a tent anywhere and try to live wherever you want.

This. Anyone who says to wait doesn't like to work. My only advice is if the budget allows then you should be willing to sign a June 1 lease.

Yah start now

This is definitely the right time to be looking.

Avoid anything by Pike International, Ocean, or Mandy Management if you can possibly help it

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if you have a job that provides insurance, check the perks. if they have a fitness program you could pay <$30 for a wide range of gyms in the area.