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Pete Harrison

@peteharrison860.bsky.social
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CT RPA Director / DesegregateCT / pro-homes + pro-riders. www.yimby.town 2025 coming to New Haven 9/14 - 9/16 CT > NYC > CT

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Regional Plan Association @rpa.org · 08/12/2025
RPA 🤝 @desegregatect.bsky.social 🤝 Gov. Ned Lamont 🤝 @yimbytown.bsky.social @peteharrison860.bsky.social and Nick Kantor went to Norwalk today to see the #HB8002 signing ... and had to bring some YIMBYtown merch along for the governor!
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Regional Plan Association @rpa.org · 08/12/2025
RPA's @peteharrison860.bsky.social is with Gov. Ned Lamont at the HB 8002 signing today! (feat. a @yimbytown.bsky.social shout-out!)
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
My local bike shop got a nice shoutout in this!
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Connecticut Parking Reform @ctparkingreform.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It’s #BlackFridayParking day, so we took a visit to the Danbury Fair Mall in Danbury, CT. Even on the busiest day of the year—a day where the front side of the mall is packed—the back side and parking garage has more than enough space!
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Regional Plan Association @rpa.org · 10/11/2025
Special session starts in CT this week. A reminder — Connecticut wants more housing + supports a number of ways to make it happen. See the full results on our website: bit.ly/4oWkFUD
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Pro-Homes CT @prohomesct.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A giant in the New York City tenants movement and an inspiration to @peteharrison860.bsky.social, Michael will be sorely missed. Learn about Michael here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/n...
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Regional Plan Association @rpa.org · 20/09/2025
That's MY mayor 🥹 🥹 🥹 RPA's Pete Harrison spoke to News8 this week about bringing together decision-makers, advocates, and policy experts at @yimbytown.bsky.social — take a look ⬇️
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It’s $195 if you work in gov/non prof
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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ALT: a bald man in a blue suit is making a funny face while pointing at something .
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Generally don’t think a lot of housing should go there since it’s far from existing bus transit BUT I think any preservation effort with public money should have offset requirements for density / pro-active zoning changes elsewhere. Also embarrassing to back off the small development opportunity
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Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 17/07/2025
Add New Hampshire to the (increasingly long) list of states taking major action on housing this year! The governor just signed: - Single-stair up to 4 stories - Cap parking mandates @ 1/home - ADU expansion - Residential in commercial zones - Legalizing roommates www.603forward.org/press/housin...
Young Leaders Deliver Housing Wins,

Advocates Call for Investments to Match

 

CONCORD, NH – – 603 Forward and New Hampshire Youth Movement celebrate the signing of three major housing bills – HB 631, HB 577, and SB 284 – into law as a step toward easing the state’s worsening housing shortage. These new laws modernize local zoning policies by enabling more homes near jobs and transit, reforming outdated parking requirements, and expanding the ability to build accessory dwelling units (ADUs) across the state.

 

These policy changes will help propel New Hampshire into the future and begin to address an issue affecting every single Granite Stater. While these changes lay important groundwork for long-term progress, both organizations emphasize that zoning reform alone won’t solve the crisis. Without real investment from the state, too many working families, young people, and seniors will continue to be priced out of their communities.
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Yup
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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 23/06/2025
With Governor Lamont of Connecticut vetoing major housing legislation (HB50002), it is without question that republicans are far better on housing issues at this point, and that makes me very sad.
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Jillian Gilchrest @jilchrest.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
When the only people applauding you are the state’s Republican leaders… maybe you don’t represent the people who elected you.
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CT Gov. Lamont to veto controversial housing, striking workers bills
Gov. Ned Lamont will veto two bills passed by the Connecticut legislature, he announced Monday.
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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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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It took heroic efforts to get HB 5002 through the CT legislature. CT has some of the most expensive suburbs & most restrictive zoning in the US - 2+ acre minimum lot sizes near excellent transit infrastructure & job access. Deeply frustrating to see Gov. Lamont's veto.
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Urban Dispatch @urbandispatch.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Absolute pathetic governor we have in Connecticut. His veto rested on "Towns are trying really hard, I need to give them more time" I'm sorry, the data just doesn't support anything the Governor is saying. We cannot permit our way out of a 400k home shortage without changing anything
History of building permits being issued in Connecticut by year by type showing a massive decrease from historical levels
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/06/2025
Un-fucking-believable cowardice from Gov. Ned Lamont in CT. He just vetoed an incredible housing bill out of fear of a transparently fraudulent, astroturfed opposition campaign. Go ahead & tell him what you think. 860-566-4840
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Alex Putterman @alexputterman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
He was asked a lot of times, and a lot of different ways, what exactly he'd like to see housing policy in CT look like and didn't provide a particularly clear answer. Instead, he emphasized his desire for towns to be involved and expressed optimism there's a version of the bill they would support.
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Ginny Monk @ginnymonk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Good thread on today's press conference during which CT's governor announced he'd veto a housing bill he previously supported, the most significant piece of housing legislation to cross his desk during his time in office.
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Tom Corsillo @tomcorsillo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Lamont's logic on his HB5002 veto: - We need housing - This bill is good - Some mayors and first selectmen are mad about the bill because of misinformation anti-housing people have been pushing - The things they're mad about are fine, actually - Therefore, I will be vetoing the bill
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Blue states not growing means they hand their political power to red states, it really is that simple.
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Yodel Green @realyodelgreen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
To say nothing of the shockwaves that vetoing HB 5002 will send through state politics in CT, it also means Lamont is hostile to one of the best ways for Democrats to build long term power federally: adding population to Blue states. CT’s housing crisis is already costing it a full seat in Congress.
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Representative Eleni Kavros DeGraw @repkavrosdegraw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The veto of HB5002 a 🧵1/ a lot If only we gathered a group of municipal leaders and both sides of the aisle, and advocates and listened to experts . . . Spent six months on the Majority Leader’s Round Table learning how best to move forward in the 2nd most constrained housing market in the country.
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Regional Plan Association @rpa.org · 23/06/2025
Today, Gov. Ned Lamont vetoed HB 5002, a bill that represented an important step forward for housing in CT. The cost of inaction is great. We call on Gov. Lamont to to finish the job on this bill. From @desegregatect.bsky.social @peteharrison860.bsky.social: rpa.org/news/news-re...
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Don’t worry, the ban doesn’t impact rest stops on 95, enjoy the gridlock 😘
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
And we’re all indebted to @reprojas9.bsky.social for driving this effort 🙌
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Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 31/05/2025
Connecticut just adopted a MASSIVE pro-housing law that: - Ends costly parking mandates (1st state east of the Rockies to do so) - Incentives transit oriented development & fair share - Allows middle housing in commercial zones - Allows manufactured homes everywhere Go @desegregatect.bsky.social!
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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Speaking at Yale Innovation Summit today, Gov. Lamont touted CT’s strong job market & vibrant companies. You know what helps keep entrepreneurs & workers in your state? Making it easier to build homes they can afford in every community.
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I have people swear it’s a Hong Kong genre movie and appreciate it that way but it’s just not very good on those terms either imo
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Excited to be launching this at YIMBYtown 2025 in New Haven! And excited to have some submissions from CT 🙏
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Alex Putterman @alexputterman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Connecticut is one of the nation's richest states, yet has seen homelessness surge in recent years. That includes Fairfield County, where one packed shelter sits only a couple miles from the state's wealthiest zip codes. Part 2 of our series on inequality in CT. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
ctinsider.com
Homelessness surges in wealthy CT: 'I'm surrounded by millionaires, and next door this is happening'
Homelessness is an issue throughout Connecticut but is particularly striking in Fairfield County, where great wealth and great struggle exist only miles apart.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2025
my buddy @resnikoff.bsky.social off the top rope with some actual class analysis www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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A YIMBY Theory of Power
Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 08/04/2025
Feels like there's a lesson in here for just about anyone else, and again, the Feds have very little leverage over the day-to-day operations of the MTA here.
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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James Hedrick (he/him) @housingjames.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Public housing vs. zoning reform is ABSOLUTELY a false contradiction. When I chaired a public housing authority, we literally could not do what we wanted to do - house more families - with the property we owned. Exclusionary zoning had a massive negative impact on how much we could help.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
multiple issues here: -it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders -even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate
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Kate Rozen @katerozen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great video on the Northeast Corridor. 1 in 7 United Statesians reside in this area. A vital investment in the country's economic engine means robust rail. (www.fra.dot.gov/necfuture/ab...)
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NEC FUTURE: About NEC FUTURE
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This mall can’t even support a gocart course. Getting homes here will make better use of excess commercial space and help the remaining retail thrive. Only beef is it’s not filling in the vast empty parking yet but hopefully that’s a second phase (when Work Live Ride passes!)
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is exactly what should happen at Simsbury Commons (and most declining malls in CT). Work Live Ride is uniquely designed to help towns do just that: create mixed use walkable neighbors near transit. www.ctinsider.com/farmingtonva...
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Simsbury Commons proposal would add 300 apartments to property
Owners of Simsbury Commons are proposing to add 300 apartment units to a plaza anchored by Stop & Shop and a Dill Dinkers pickleball facility.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Passing the bill he wants passed gives him more power. Not passing the bill he wants takes away from his power. Pls stop insulting everyone’s intelligence.
Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social • 12m
SCHUMER just now: "While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse."
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Schumer: "For sure, the Republican bill is a terrible option. It is not a clean CR. It is deeply partisan. It doesn't address far too many of this country's needs. But I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option."
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The best thing about this process was the *relatively* quiet opposition. Given some space, a lot of the commissioners seem open to reforms.
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Bryan Baker, AICP @sixtyacre.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In my completely biased opinion, an excellent successor to @peteharrison860.bsky.social
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New Director of Desegregate CT Predicts Passage of 'Work, Live Ride' With Few Tweaks, Bipartisan Votes
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Nice local article about YIMBYtown 2025 coming to New Haven Sept 14-16! It’s shaping up to be a BFD. Anyone feeling down right now should mark this on their calendar 🤙 yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/01...
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New Haven to host national bipartisan housing conference
DesegregateCT, a coalition of nonprofits committed to solving the housing crisis, was selected to host the national YIMBYtown conference.
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
On the train so I can’t make this tonight, but spoke at the last meeting on these improvements. Totally reasonable and will make some positive incremental progress, tho the unfunded IZ is counterproductive. Naturally, a small but loud minority will likely try to paint this as the sky is falling 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Sara C. Bronin @sarabronin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Hi Hartford! I'm thrilled to be catching up with all the good people at @desegregatect.bsky.social during a book Happy Hour on Saturday! I'm going to be hanging out plus talking about Key to the City, which opens in Hartford - & features Colt Gateway & Hooker Brewery. See you soon!
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Excited to announce that we are hosting YIMBYtown 2025 in New Haven, CT on Sept 14-16! 🏘️🚍🍕 One step closer to my not-so-secret goal of having the entire national movement adopt “pro-homes” 😊
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The author also made a glaring mistake - Stuytown is still rental housing and still regulated. It’s not cheap but it’s not condos like Parkchester.
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Pete Harrison @peteharrison860.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
There’s not enough Worcester love in this thread. Can’t wait till you can take the train there from Hartford line. Getting rail restored from Worcester to New London is one of many rail dreams of mine but I’d take BRT too
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