COMMUNITY LIFE
FAREED SALMON & ABEL GELETA
Blending research and advocacy, Yale’s Housing and Health Equity Lab tackles homelessness through a scientific lens

Founded by Danya Keene, the YSPH lab explores the links between housing and health, promoting policy interventions to enhance housing access and reduce racial health disparities.

January 31, 2024

BROOKLYN BRAUNER & AGOMONI SAHA
The Nourish Project promotes healthy aging at two local senior independent living facilities

The Dwight Hall undergraduate organization is seeking to remedy many of the societal detriments the New Haven elderly community has been facing following COVID-19.

January 30, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Board of Education making progress on climate emergency resolution, student activists push for greater investment 

New Haven Public Schools and students are working toward zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, environmental sustainability operations and climate education.

January 25, 2024

LAURA OSPINA
Yale to send non-Yale tenants packing from Broadway apartments

After purchasing 59 Broadway in November, Yale will give non-Yale affiliated tenants one year to vacate their apartments. Current tenants have amassed almost 600 signatures in protest.

January 24, 2024

NATASHA KHAZZAM
Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen to expand

Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen announced plans to expand its 266 State St. location. Renovations will include the addition of a new kitchen and medical clinic to the four-story building.

January 24, 2024

BROOKLYN BRAUNER
City hosts a reading of Ruby Bridges’ newest book for New Haven students

The Boys and Girls Club of New Haven hosted a read-aloud as a part of a“Ruby Bridges Storytime”event last week.

January 23, 2024

LAURA OSPINA
Labor leaders and elected officials celebrate Local 33 contract at MLK Day event

New Haven Rising, a grassroots labor organization, honored Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of economic justice at their annual event, highlighting labor wins on a local and national scale.

January 18, 2024

MAIA NEHME
‘YOU Have a Dream’ event launches new nonprofit, Newhallville fREshSTARTs

The organization’s founders discussed plans for food recovery and redistribution, as well as programming for local youth and adults at an MLK Day event.

January 17, 2024

LICHEL JOHNSTON
New Haven holds annual menorah lighting

The New Haven community gathered to commemorate the first night of Hanukkah with a ceremony on the Green on Dec. 7.

December 12, 2023

YURII STASIUK, BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ & TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
City leaders, protest organizers condemn desecration of menorah during Saturday rally

After an individual lodged a Palestinian flag in a menorah on the New Haven Green during a protest on Saturday, city officials and faith leaders condemned the act as hateful — as did protest organizers and Yale in a University statement.

December 12, 2023

JAKE SIESEL
New Haven celebrates 110th annual Tree Lighting

Hundreds of New Haveners crowded around the 55-foot spruce for the Christmas tradition that began in 1913.

December 5, 2023