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| (5/11/2012) by Paul Bass | May 3, 2012 4:10 pm Taking a page from a political campaign opponent, City Hall unveiled a plan to convince teachers, cops, firefighters, and other government employees to buy homes in town.Officials call it a “Buy New Haven” campaign.Livable City Initiative (LCI) chief Erik Johnson introduced the planned campaign at a budget hearing this week. He’s asking ...
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| (4/24/2012) BY Melissa Bailey | APR 13, 2012 11:01 AM Construction workers tore into the remnants of a row of rundown houses as a not-for-profit builder launched a $13 million effort to remake Fair Haven streets.The demo took place this week on Murray Place, a paper street connecting Saltonstall to Wolcott.That’s one of two Fair Haven blocks where the builder, Mutual Housing, doing business ...
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| (12/12/2011) Failed Inspection? Slumlords Find New Inspectorby Neena Satija | Dec 13, 2011 11:04 amVirginia Garcia and her kids were home sweeping the floors and throwing out furniture. Not because they’re moving out—though they’d like to. But because mice and rats have gotten to nearly everything they own.When we were putting up our Christmas tree, I saw a shirt moving on the floor, recalled Garcia (pictured), who lives on 102 Haven St. with her five children. A ...
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| (11/28/2011) by Neena Satija | Nov 28, 2011 8:07 amAfter milking them for years while stiffing banks and failing inspections, Janet Dawson and Michael Steinbach have unloaded a small chunk of their rental-house empire. Local property-flipper Wade Beecher (pictured) got his hands on four of them, on behalf of some well-heeled “Venezualan friends.”That is the latest twist in the saga of the Dawson-Steinbach empire, which includes hundreds of properties in poor city neighborhoods, many of them criticized ...
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| (11/20/2011) by Neena Satija | Nov 22, 2011 1:01 pmIt’s been more than two years since the bathroom ceiling in Delwanna Wiggins’ apartment caved in on her. It’s been four months since Apple Holdings LLC—one of New Haven slumlord Michael Steinbach’s corporate aliases—was ordered to pay her $30,665.50 in damages.Wiggins never got a cent.Steinbach, on the other hand, continued to collect rent for her apartment from the government long after the ceiling collapsed—courtesy of the taxpayer. Wiggins (pictured ...
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| (11/2/2011) Copper Thieves Cause Gas Leakby Thomas MacMillan | Nov 9, 2011 12:57 pmThe morning after she ordered a vacant house on Saltonstall Avenue boarded up because thieves were making off with copper piping, Livable City Initiative staffer Laurie Lopez returned to find a funny smell in the air. Bandits had burgled one pipe too many—and started a gas leak.The gas company responded, then quickly called the fire and police departments, which evacuated neighboring buildings while the leak was contained.At ...
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| (11/1/2011) by Thomas MacMillan | Nov 3, 2011 11:12 amBefore he can begin to strengthen young fighters, Gary Smikle is looking to strengthen the windows of a new Dixwell youth boxing gym.On Wednesday afternoon, after a ceremony celebrating the imminent opening of the Elephant In The Room boxing gym at the corner of Henry and Orchard streets, Smikle held a brief consultation about putting bars on the windows. He discussed options with his part-time employer, John Murphy, the head of a construction company ...
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| (11/1/2011) by Neena Satija | Nov 2, 2011 11:08 amPoverty landlords Janet Dawson and Michael Steinbach found a way to make money in the recession—stop paying the bank, let properties deteriorate, but continue collecting tens of thousands of dollars a month in checks from New Haven’s housing authority.The Housing Authority of New Haven (HANH) is sending Section 8 federal rent subsidy checks to Dawson’s and Steinbach’s various corporate entities for at least 73 rental apartments, according to HANH. ...
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| (11/1/2011) by Paul Bass | Nov 3, 2011 9:11 amSome 50 New Haven adults will go to school to learn new trades—by building the school themselves.They’ll be gut-rehabbing an abandoned shell of a former auto repair shop at 316 Dixwell Ave. into the new home for city government’s Construction Workforce Initiative.That’s the program, run by the Commission on Equal Opportunities’ Nichole Jefferson (pictured), aimed at helping train out-of-work adults for construction-related jobs currently booming in New ...
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| (9/19/2011) The State of Connecticut HB 6351 has no effect on the City of New Haven Ordinance.All Foreclosing Entities who have initiated a Foreclosure Process on any Residential Property must register each property with the Director, or his designee, on forms provided by the Director, or his designee, along with the registration fee detailed below. This registration must be received by the Director, or his designee, within seven (7) days after the Foreclosing Entity’s Initiation of the Foreclosure Process. ...
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| (9/1/2011) New Haven Independentby Staff | Aug 31, 2011 7:16 pm
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| (7/1/2011) By: Paul Bass & Thomas MacMillan | Jul 1, 2011 2:10 pm“I’m not a criminal,” a tearful 78-year-old retired schoolteacher said in court Friday while awaiting arraignment on 28 counts of code violations at a Newhallville property she owns.Meanwhile, her niece lay in a hospital bed recovering from a fall from the property’s second-floor porch. And a prominent local developer who also happened to be in court stepped forward with an offer to finish fixing the property for free.Those are the ...
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| (7/1/2011) Published: Tuesday, June 21, 2011By Register Staff / Contact UsTwitter: @nhregisterClick to enlargeNEW HAVEN — A 59-year-old woman fell face first about 20 feet after a balcony railing gave way in the Newhallville neighborhood.Her 79-year-old landlord later was arrested on a year-old warrant charging her with failing to appear in court to address 28 housing code violations that she failed to fix.The victim was identified as Julia Blackmon, who lives in a third-floor apartment ...
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| (2/22/2011) BY: Melissa Bailey Jan 19, 2011Melissa Guffey and her loved ones huddled at the Omni Hotel after escaping a dangerous living situation at Church Street South that the feds deemed safe—even as city inspectors chased after the landlord to eliminate a deadly carbon monoxide threat.Guffey, who’s 23, was holed up at the Omni Tuesday afternoon with her son, Jariel, and her boyfriend, Ivan Cortes, 23 (pictured). They were hiding out from the freezing rain falling outside—and from living conditions ...
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| (1/26/2011) Luxury Condos Or Low-Cost Rentals?by Thomas MacMillan | Jan 26, 2011 7:40 amLooking at a vacant school house, one developer sees rental apartments for under $1,000 a month. Another is set on “New York style, chic, urban” luxury condos selling for $250,000.Those are two of four visions for the old Lovell Elementary School building at 45 Nash St. The three-story brick building was left vacant last summer after the city ended the CT Scholars program, part of Wilbur Cross High School, which ...
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| The new website offers up-to-date information about LCI's programs and efforts. It allows staff to regularly update relevant news and program changes to residents, homeowners and developers. LCI welcomes any suggestions to continue to improve its website. Please feel free send feedback using the online form on the new website. And keep checking back for regular updates.
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| (9/23/2010) Sept. 23, 2010 (from New Haven Independent)The rehabilitation of the 80-unit Dwight Cooperative apartments on Edgewood Avenue moved forward Wednesday, as the City Plan Commission formally approved an agreement designed to rescue the foreclosed property that had been falling into eye-sore status. Garfield Spencer (at left in photo), who owns the Bridgeport-based First National Development Corporation, has been selected to do the work. The project will be called Dwight Gardens.Spencer ...
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| (6/4/2010) June 4, 2010 (from New Haven Independent)Asbestos-laden siding that fell near an infant’s home has been carted away, after the city swung a new “stick” at the owner of an East Shore home that’s been falling apart for years. The threatened penalty—a $100 fine per day, per code violation—was issued last month in a civil citation to the owners of 9 Doty Place. The lettermarked the first time the city has enforced a beefed-up anti-blight ordinance signed into law last September.The crackdown ...
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| (1/5/2010) January 5, 2010 (from New Haven Independent)After a year with no permanent director, the city has tapped a new chief to take over its anti-blight agency.Erik Johnson, a New Haven native currently working in D.C., has been chosen as executive director of the Livable City Initiative.Johnson is due to start Feb. 1, according to Economic Development Administrator Kelly Murphy, who announced the news Monday in a letter to aldermen.Johnson will end a year-long flux for the agency, which ...
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