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Kayla Giordano

@kaylagiordano.bsky.social
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Native Nutmegger and Housing Enthusiast. Also: bookworm, wife, dog mom, tea lover and begrudging condo board member. Sr. Strategic Initiatives Manager @ Partnership for Strong Communities. Opinions are my own.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
NEW: Nine people experiencing homelessness died from hypothermia in Connecticut last year. @jrabethomas.bsky.social and I spoke with friends and family for four of those people about who their loved ones were. Our latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
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Nine people froze to death in Connecticut last year. 'No one should die without a home'
The questions their stories raise is still the same: Who is responsible when preventable deaths become routine?
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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Listen, Zohran, it takes real governing chops to ineffectually introduce then fail on highway tolls, publicly flail on a housing bill and backstab your caucus, and randomly suggest regionalization with no plan at all, and oversee corrupt school construction officials ctmirror.org/2025/10/30/n...
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Ned Lamont to Zohran Mamdani: 'Revolutions are easy, governing is hard'
CT Gov. Ned Lamont said he's ready to work with Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race, if he wins next week.
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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A Connecticut woman who witnessed an ICE raid in Hamden today said an agent threatened her with arrest when she asked a detainee if he was okay. "I told him that he did not have the right to speak to me that way and that I was an American citizen. And I told him that he was an evil bastard."
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Mayor Lauren Garrett
Hamden officials and community members respond to ICE raid.
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Partnership for Strong Communities @pschousing.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
“H.B. 5002 wasn’t a silver bullet.. But it was important, incremental progress toward systemic change… CT cannot afford another season of delay. Read the Partnership's latest op-ed: heyor.ca/eAHanB
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Opinion: CT cannot keep saying 'No' to new homes
'H.B. 5002 wasn’t a silver bullet. No single bill can solve our housing woes. But it was important, incremental progress toward systemic change.'
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Pro-Homes CT @prohomesct.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Here's an op-ed from Kayla Giordano from our coalition partner @pschousing.bsky.social. CT hosted YIMBYtown the largest pro-homes conference in the U.S. but instead of taking the lead on housing, our state is falling behind. Gov. Lamont, where is the special session? ctmirror.org/2025/09/26/y...
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
And for Connecticut folks - it’s worth reflecting that, to my knowledge, no member of our state Department of Housing attended either. A real missed opportunity for our leaders to learn from other states who have successfully passed impactful housing policy
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Lots of conversations at #yimbytown2025 about building as the solution to our housing crisis. Excited to moderate a panel tomorrow that expands our discussion to how models of community ownership are key to ensuring that everyone can access safe, stable and affordable homes! @yimbytown.bsky.social
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Super excited to be moderating a session at #YIMBYtown2025 on the intersection of abundance and social housing in less than a month! Check out the full conference schedule here: yimby.town/schedule-2/
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
a little iced chai, a little work, The Cure playing on the coffee house radio - just like heaven ✨
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Rob @dontcurbyourcoys.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Welcome back, my sweet princes. COYS!
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
if a content creator posts a recipe that doesn’t include heavy cream someone from Instagram comes to their door and shoots them in the head
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
time to admit im a fed (fed up with unaffordable housing)
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 23/06/2025
Give Lamont hell so that other blue state governors are afraid to veto pro-housing bills, IMO
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Partnership for Strong Communities @pschousing.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🚨 Governor Lamont’s veto of H.B. 5002 is a setback for families, renters, and businesses across CT. With no action this session, the housing crisis deepens—and thousands remain without relief. It’s time for bold, urgent solutions. Read the Partnership's full statement: t.congressweb.com/w/?VJMUK
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Gov. Lamont has talked a big game about how Connecticut can be a safe haven for people whose rights are at risk. At yet, where are all the people we want to protect supposed to live if we can’t build and maintain affordable housing? The cognitive dissonance is just mind boggling.
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Urban Dispatch @urbandispatch.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Late night appreciation post for @kaylagiordano.bsky.social for this killer chart. I reference this all the time PS - We used to build so much housing in CT, we didn't need to stop!
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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🔔CT housing folks and urbanists!🔔 Please contact Governor Lamont and support HB5002—it only takes a few minutes and will let him know that unhinged NIMBYs aren’t the only people in Connecticut
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Rob @dontcurbyourcoys.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Big day for Robert’s around the world!
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
overheard some folks at a conference I'm attending in Denver lamenting that their Uber from the airport was $100 me: oh! when you head back take the train from Union Station, it takes you right to the airport and it only costs $10! them: oh thanks but Uber is much easier! me:
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michael scott is sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed and his hand on his chin .
ALT: michael scott is sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed and his hand on his chin .
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
from now on when I’m overwhelmed by world badness I’m just gonna start listening to This Year over and over again until I feel better lol
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thanks @ctmirror.org for sharing my opinion piece yesterday! Let's pass #JustCause eviction protections this session while we work on other policies to increase #housing supply in Connecticut.
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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
When I say, "I'm about that life," the life I'm referring to is eating cookies.
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I took a quick ride on the Northeast Regional into Boston this morning to attend a discussion on a new book by @jonathantarleton.bsky.social on social housing. Great to be in community with so many folks interested in models of #housing decommodification!
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Does anyone else hate the Microsoft Word “be more concise” recommendations? I am human, let me yap!!!!
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Partnership for Strong Communities @pschousing.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
HB 6889 Just Cause Eviction Protections has passed out of the Housing Committee! Huge thanks to the legislators who supported it & to everyone who testified—your voices made this possible. Stay tuned for opportunities to take action in the coming weeks to get this bill across the finish line.
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Alfonso Robinson @ctblogger.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice.” -Martin Luther King. #NutmegSky #CTPolitics
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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
@agwilliamtong.bsky.social not mincing words: "This is a war on the American people... And I think it’s pretty clear after seven days that President Trump doesn’t just want to remake American culture & society, doesn’t just want to cancel some DEI programs – I think it’s clear he means to hurt us."
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong
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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“You’re welcome here***” ***as long as you can afford our nation-leading rents and housing prices www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont to undocumented immigrants in state: 'You're welcome here'
Connecticut lawmakers debated Thursday how the state should respond to President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement.
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Hopped on metro north to check out the current exhibit on home at the Cooper Hewitt museum. Some powerful exhibitions - particularly one on housing after incarceration.
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
About to write testimony describing my personal experience waiting 30 minutes for Oppenheimer to start while the person next to me ate the most fragrant movie theater hotdog known to man.
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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A packed house at the LOB today in solidarity with the CT Tenants Union to pass Just Cause Eviction protections!
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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I want to (shamelessly) re-up a piece I wrote in 2022 that’s going to be important for 2025. Snob zoning is class warfare, and its defenders use extreme rhetoric about 8-30g “destroying towns” to divide the working and middle class against itself. Don’t let them. www.ctpost.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Anti-housing activists don’t have your interests at heart
We need to stop thinking of “housing units” in the abstract and remember they are...
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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones"
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I might pay $700 in HOA fees but at least I don’t need to shovel!
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Partnership for Strong Communities @pschousing.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
“[T]he lack of affordable housing...undermines the fundamental premise that full-time workers should be able to achieve a decent standard of living for themselves & their families.” heyor.ca/j1j6rO Join us 1/29 to explore deeply affordable housing as a tool for economic growth. heyor.ca/cRHFCf
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A Foundation for Growth: Deeply Affordable Housing as Economic Strategy
Join us for our first IForum of the year!
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Community Conversation tonight in Hamden on affordable housing! #NutmegSky #HamdenCT #affordablehousing
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Sean Ghio @seanghio.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I'm proud to share the 2025 policy priorities of @pschousing.bsky.social
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Lamont’s speech focused on “affordability and opportunity” and yet mentioned almost nothing about the housing challenges facing CT residents. How are families supposed to access the benefits our state offers if they can’t afford to live here? #NutmegSky
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Partnership for Strong Communities @pschousing.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Today marks the first day of CT's 2025 legislative session—and we're ready to fight to make it more possible for every person and family to afford a place to call home. The housing crisis demands bold action now. Learn more about our policy priorities: heyor.ca/0PVNRq
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
all i want after a long day of work is for my train home to be on time but the Amtrak 475 stays praying on my downfall
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I have a lot of conflicting feelings about TTO. It’s great to see low/mod income families getting access to homeownership. But at the same time the state is spending millions of dollars on a program that does address the root reason (no supply!!) that people can’t afford a house to begin with.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
With homelessness at a record high and an astonishing *11.4 million* poor renter households now classified as "severely cost-burdened," it’s hard to overstate how catastrophic Trump’s pick to run HUD could be.
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
hubs and i walk frequently after dinner and we’ve almost been run over twice in as many weeks
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CTNewsJunkie @ctnewsjunkie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
With Ridership Increasing, Connecticut Receives $291 Million For Rail Improvements #ctnewsjunkie #ctpolitics
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With Ridership Increasing, Connecticut Receives $291 Million For Rail Improvements
The Federal Railroad Administration is awarding Connecticut about $291 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for five railroad improvement projects across the state, Gov. Ned Lamont and the Connecticut congressional delegation announced last week.
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Attended a Guilford Affordable Housing Comm. Meeting tonight and was heartened to see that despite overwhelming attendance by old white people that the convo was overwhelmingly positive
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
it’s the 2nd day of #CAHC2024 - tune in now to hear Brian McCabe and Eva Rosen talk about their research in The Sociology of Housing! #Nutmegsky
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Spokane has passed several upzonings & housing reforms—eliminating parking minimums near transit, increasing height maximums, reducing lot minimums, allowing more missing middle, & expanding property tax exemptions for new apts—and now they have record construction even amidst high interest rates
a graph of housing units permitted by spokane, which spikes in 2023 and 2024
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Kayla Giordano @kaylagiordano.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“If you are wedded to local control you are not serious about solving the housing crisis.”- @jerusalem.bsky.social saying what Connecticut policymakers need to hear at #CAHC2024
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