Anika Singh Lemar
@anikasinghlemar.bsky.social
Some of my thoughts on what community development means and my affection for New Haven here: https://bit.ly/3AawrCb
feeling a little bit too seen, @rolandlemar.bsky.social
Local man who loves walkable neighbourhoods and the 15 minute city spends life driving to hockey tournaments two towns away.
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
feeling a little bit too seen, @rolandlemar.bsky.social
"Here’s what I don’t get. The collective gnashing of teeth over the construction of developer-initiated housing in town."
Preach, Greenwich.
Preach, Greenwich.
David Rafferty (opinion): More housing is just Greenwich changing with the times
'People want to live in Greenwich and we should have more options for entry-level and retirement-age buyers and renters,' columnist David Rafferty writes.
www.greenwichtime.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"Here’s what I don’t get. The collective gnashing of teeth over the construction of developer-initiated housing in town."
Preach, Greenwich.
Preach, Greenwich.
I assume this is the sortof thing that (temporarily, one hopes?) derailed Tim Scott's bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act. A nominally libertarian organization questioning the relationship between supply and demand. www.cato.org/briefing-pap...
The ROAD to More Federal Control: How Congress Is Misdiagnosing America’s Housing Problems
Overall, it is unlikely that the policies in the ROAD to Housing Act will satisfy many critics of federal housing policy over the past few decades.
www.cato.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I assume this is the sortof thing that (temporarily, one hopes?) derailed Tim Scott's bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act. A nominally libertarian organization questioning the relationship between supply and demand. www.cato.org/briefing-pap...
Reposted by Anika Singh Lemar
In any event, any talk of aesthetics-driven NIMBYism requires a shout out to Connecticut's own Arnold Karp: “I’ve driven by a lot of these peoples’ homes,” he said. “How do I say it? I don’t think they’re the arbiters of design in New Canaan.” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/r...
A Wall Divides a Connecticut Town (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
In any event, any talk of aesthetics-driven NIMBYism requires a shout out to Connecticut's own Arnold Karp: “I’ve driven by a lot of these peoples’ homes,” he said. “How do I say it? I don’t think they’re the arbiters of design in New Canaan.” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/r...
In any event, any talk of aesthetics-driven NIMBYism requires a shout out to Connecticut's own Arnold Karp: “I’ve driven by a lot of these peoples’ homes,” he said. “How do I say it? I don’t think they’re the arbiters of design in New Canaan.” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/r...
A Wall Divides a Connecticut Town (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
In any event, any talk of aesthetics-driven NIMBYism requires a shout out to Connecticut's own Arnold Karp: “I’ve driven by a lot of these peoples’ homes,” he said. “How do I say it? I don’t think they’re the arbiters of design in New Canaan.” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/r...
Idk, I am pretty sure that thinking it's your business whether someone else's house is ugly is NIMBYism.
NEW PAPER w/ @cselmendorf.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social:
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Idk, I am pretty sure that thinking it's your business whether someone else's house is ugly is NIMBYism.
parts of it are good but any author who ends a book by suggesting that you can "solve" New Haven by Yale starting a center is deeply misguided and misinformed. plus there are two "other sides" of propsect and you wouldn't know it from the author's leering gare from the $$$$ side to his "other side"
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
parts of it are good but any author who ends a book by suggesting that you can "solve" New Haven by Yale starting a center is deeply misguided and misinformed. plus there are two "other sides" of propsect and you wouldn't know it from the author's leering gare from the $$$$ side to his "other side"
gift link: Amid housing shortage, CT spends millions managing homelessness other ways
Amid housing shortage, CT spends millions managing homelessness other ways
Amid a housing shortage, Connecticut is spending millions managing homelessness through foster care, jails and ERs. Lawmakers say the issue can be solved.
www.ctinsider.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
gift link: Amid housing shortage, CT spends millions managing homelessness other ways
Restaurant owners excited to serve more customers, public high school principals who see what their housing insecure students face, renters who would like to continue to live here, and homeowners who want even more people to enjoy the City we love: this is New Haven.
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Restaurant owners excited to serve more customers, public high school principals who see what their housing insecure students face, renters who would like to continue to live here, and homeowners who want even more people to enjoy the City we love: this is New Haven.
I am reading the written testimony in support of Downtown for All, an upzoning of downtown New Haven supported by all three of its city council people and, yay, New Haven, honestly, your (our!) idealism and hospitality and just basic desire to make life better are so needed here in Connecticut.
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I am reading the written testimony in support of Downtown for All, an upzoning of downtown New Haven supported by all three of its city council people and, yay, New Haven, honestly, your (our!) idealism and hospitality and just basic desire to make life better are so needed here in Connecticut.
"Why can't blue states build housing?" asks USA Today in an article about Lamont's veto of 5002.
Connecticut housing crisis persists as Governor Lamont vetoes reform bill
A law that would have encouraged new housing in Connecticut failed after local opponents mounted a campaign, leaving many advocates frustrated.
www.usatoday.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"Why can't blue states build housing?" asks USA Today in an article about Lamont's veto of 5002.
The idea that there are talented and gifted 4 and 5 year olds is bonkers. Nothing makes people crazier than becoming parents.
October 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The idea that there are talented and gifted 4 and 5 year olds is bonkers. Nothing makes people crazier than becoming parents.
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Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
September 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
Thankfully this conversation is live and evolving, in part because thanks to YIMBY legislative wins, they are now forced to move some of their fights into the courtroom. Was really glad to be part of these conversations @yimbytown.bsky.social over the last couple of days.
September 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Thankfully this conversation is live and evolving, in part because thanks to YIMBY legislative wins, they are now forced to move some of their fights into the courtroom. Was really glad to be part of these conversations @yimbytown.bsky.social over the last couple of days.
There is a real conversation to be had about YIMBYism and race and it's not that "the vibes are off." It's that it's taken YIMBYs a minute to connect their work to the racial justice movement that understood exclusionary zoning as a problem 75 years ago, decades before YIMBYs came to it.
September 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
There is a real conversation to be had about YIMBYism and race and it's not that "the vibes are off." It's that it's taken YIMBYs a minute to connect their work to the racial justice movement that understood exclusionary zoning as a problem 75 years ago, decades before YIMBYs came to it.
"The capacity of government to deliver is really important for all the flavors of abundance." Stephanie Pollack speaking to @yimbytown.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"The capacity of government to deliver is really important for all the flavors of abundance." Stephanie Pollack speaking to @yimbytown.bsky.social
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The good news here is that the governor knows there's a crisis and is laser-focused on getting a housing bill passed that will start to take on some of these systemic issues.
right?
Homelessness rises in CT as federal funding remains in flux ctmirror.org/2025/09/11/c...
right?
Homelessness rises in CT as federal funding remains in flux ctmirror.org/2025/09/11/c...
Homelessness rises in CT as federal funding remains in flux
There were 3,735 people living in shelters or outside in CT in January 2025, compared to 3,410 in January 2024. That’s nearly a 10% increase.
ctmirror.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The good news here is that the governor knows there's a crisis and is laser-focused on getting a housing bill passed that will start to take on some of these systemic issues.
right?
Homelessness rises in CT as federal funding remains in flux ctmirror.org/2025/09/11/c...
right?
Homelessness rises in CT as federal funding remains in flux ctmirror.org/2025/09/11/c...
Also made a plug for local public day care. #yimbytown
September 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Also made a plug for local public day care. #yimbytown
Unexpectedly, North Dakota Gov Kelly Armstrong just told @yimbytown.bsky.social to advocate for forming state banks to finance affordable housing.
September 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Unexpectedly, North Dakota Gov Kelly Armstrong just told @yimbytown.bsky.social to advocate for forming state banks to finance affordable housing.
Great panel, depressing (though not surprising coming from New Eng) to hear that MBTA communities is dampening legislators' willingness to do more rather than inspiring them to iterate and continue progress. This is my fear here in CT.
September 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Great panel, depressing (though not surprising coming from New Eng) to hear that MBTA communities is dampening legislators' willingness to do more rather than inspiring them to iterate and continue progress. This is my fear here in CT.
Yep, I am in a standing only room, at a session on building codes, @yimbytown.bsky.social. No one call the fire marshal, please.
September 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Yep, I am in a standing only room, at a session on building codes, @yimbytown.bsky.social. No one call the fire marshal, please.
Love hearing from @billmckibben.bsky.social talking to @yimbytown.bsky.social about how it takes months to install solar panels in the US rather than days in Europe, Australia...15,000 America. municipalities, each with its own regulations and inspectors... sounds familiar!
September 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Love hearing from @billmckibben.bsky.social talking to @yimbytown.bsky.social about how it takes months to install solar panels in the US rather than days in Europe, Australia...15,000 America. municipalities, each with its own regulations and inspectors... sounds familiar!
Like 150 people just booed and hissed Ned Lamont, pretty sure most of them had no idea who he was six hours ago. Totally well deserved. @yimbytown.bsky.social #yimbytown
September 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Like 150 people just booed and hissed Ned Lamont, pretty sure most of them had no idea who he was six hours ago. Totally well deserved. @yimbytown.bsky.social #yimbytown
Zoning receivership is a phrase I have never heard before. Like it. @yimbytown.bsky.social #yimbytown
September 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Zoning receivership is a phrase I have never heard before. Like it. @yimbytown.bsky.social #yimbytown
Hearing from a Montana community land trust, originally focused on low and moderate-income households, that got YIMBY-pilled when they started getting pressure to build subsidized housing for families at 200% of median income. Sounds very familiar here in CT. #yimbytown @yimbytown.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Hearing from a Montana community land trust, originally focused on low and moderate-income households, that got YIMBY-pilled when they started getting pressure to build subsidized housing for families at 200% of median income. Sounds very familiar here in CT. #yimbytown @yimbytown.bsky.social