Sean Ghio
@seanghio.bsky.social
Policy Director, Partnership for Strong Communities
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Downtown Fairfield CT is 39% parking by land area today
I have a hunch they can successfully welcome 754 new homes in a 12 year period (and a lot more if we are being honest). This is where 60 years of functionally zero growth gets us
I have a hunch they can successfully welcome 754 new homes in a 12 year period (and a lot more if we are being honest). This is where 60 years of functionally zero growth gets us
June 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Downtown Fairfield CT is 39% parking by land area today
I have a hunch they can successfully welcome 754 new homes in a 12 year period (and a lot more if we are being honest). This is where 60 years of functionally zero growth gets us
I have a hunch they can successfully welcome 754 new homes in a 12 year period (and a lot more if we are being honest). This is where 60 years of functionally zero growth gets us
Wow! A knockout blow of a thread. The sad thing is Newtown is unexceptionable in its opposition to housing.
The CT GOP is engaging in a coordinated screed against HB5002 by lying through their teeth:
"Newtown has a long history of responsible and community-driven land use policy"
Too bad Urban Dispatch keeps receipts. Newtown has kept housing from 853 families over the just last four years
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"Newtown has a long history of responsible and community-driven land use policy"
Too bad Urban Dispatch keeps receipts. Newtown has kept housing from 853 families over the just last four years
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June 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Wow! A knockout blow of a thread. The sad thing is Newtown is unexceptionable in its opposition to housing.
How out-of-sight zoning rules have outsized impact ctmirror.org/2025/05/29/h...
Opinion: How out-of-sight zoning rules have outsized impact
We often go about our lives without acknowledging the systems that shape them. Zoning is one of those systems.
ctmirror.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
How out-of-sight zoning rules have outsized impact ctmirror.org/2025/05/29/h...
A new supportive housing facility opened on Ann Street in Stamford's West End, and 11 men facing homelessness are set to move in next month.
www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...
www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...
Take a look at Stamford's new supportive housing for those struggling with homelessness
A new “supportive housing” facility opened on Ann Street in Stamford's West End, and 11 men facing homelessness are set to move in next month.
www.stamfordadvocate.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A new supportive housing facility opened on Ann Street in Stamford's West End, and 11 men facing homelessness are set to move in next month.
www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...
www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...
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I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this
May 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this
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We’re deeply disappointed the #JustCauseCT bill wasn’t called for a vote.
“It’s such a massive constituency... I struggle to understand why legislators... recognize landlords but don’t seem to recognize tenants.” — Luke LMelonakos-Harrison
@CTMirror: ctmirror.org/2025/05/20/c...
“It’s such a massive constituency... I struggle to understand why legislators... recognize landlords but don’t seem to recognize tenants.” — Luke LMelonakos-Harrison
@CTMirror: ctmirror.org/2025/05/20/c...
CT no-fault evictions ban expansion dies in legislature
Although lawmakers said many of their colleagues privately supported the idea, not enough of them were willing to vote in favor of the bill.
ctmirror.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We’re deeply disappointed the #JustCauseCT bill wasn’t called for a vote.
“It’s such a massive constituency... I struggle to understand why legislators... recognize landlords but don’t seem to recognize tenants.” — Luke LMelonakos-Harrison
@CTMirror: ctmirror.org/2025/05/20/c...
“It’s such a massive constituency... I struggle to understand why legislators... recognize landlords but don’t seem to recognize tenants.” — Luke LMelonakos-Harrison
@CTMirror: ctmirror.org/2025/05/20/c...
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New blog: The Reality: Housing Challenges I faced as a Low-Income Earner by intern Mabel Thompson.
“I realized, I belong in these spaces too. My lived experience is part of the policy puzzle they’re trying to solve.”
Read her powerful story: heyor.ca/4kj7ob
“I realized, I belong in these spaces too. My lived experience is part of the policy puzzle they’re trying to solve.”
Read her powerful story: heyor.ca/4kj7ob
May 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
New blog: The Reality: Housing Challenges I faced as a Low-Income Earner by intern Mabel Thompson.
“I realized, I belong in these spaces too. My lived experience is part of the policy puzzle they’re trying to solve.”
Read her powerful story: heyor.ca/4kj7ob
“I realized, I belong in these spaces too. My lived experience is part of the policy puzzle they’re trying to solve.”
Read her powerful story: heyor.ca/4kj7ob
Homelessness surges in wealthy CT: 'I'm surrounded by millionaires, and next door this is happening'
www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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.
www.ctinsider.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Homelessness surges in wealthy CT: 'I'm surrounded by millionaires, and next door this is happening'
www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
Two Connecticuts: How gaps between rich and poor define life in CT www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
Two Connecticuts: How gaps between rich and poor define life in CT
Few places in the United States have inequality quite like Connecticut’s, where extreme wealth and extreme struggle coexist in startling proximity.
www.ctinsider.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Two Connecticuts: How gaps between rich and poor define life in CT www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
It's great to see that Wallingford has taken steps to make it easier to build affordable housing in it's downtown. More towns should follow their lead.
www.ctinsider.com/recordjourna...
www.ctinsider.com/recordjourna...
Wallingford opens downtown to affordable housing development with new regulation
Wallingford Planning and Zoning Commission passed a new regulation that offers incentives based on how many affordable units there are and reduces restrictions.
www.ctinsider.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It's great to see that Wallingford has taken steps to make it easier to build affordable housing in it's downtown. More towns should follow their lead.
www.ctinsider.com/recordjourna...
www.ctinsider.com/recordjourna...
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Could a photo and a headline better encapsulate the root cause of our housing crisis?
These subjective veto points are the problem, full stop
These subjective veto points are the problem, full stop
Clearly Trumbull isn't sending ITS best to the planning and zoning commission. www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-05...
'We got a lot of communists in the state': Trumbull officials blast CT affordable housing laws
Town officials in Trumbull recently took out their frustrations with the state’s affordable housing laws during a meeting with a developer proposing 100 apartments.
www.ctpublic.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Could a photo and a headline better encapsulate the root cause of our housing crisis?
These subjective veto points are the problem, full stop
These subjective veto points are the problem, full stop
Clearly Trumbull isn't sending ITS best to the planning and zoning commission. www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-05...
'We got a lot of communists in the state': Trumbull officials blast CT affordable housing laws
Town officials in Trumbull recently took out their frustrations with the state’s affordable housing laws during a meeting with a developer proposing 100 apartments.
www.ctpublic.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Clearly Trumbull isn't sending ITS best to the planning and zoning commission. www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-05...
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Just Cause eviction protections are about protecting Connecticut families from being unfairly displaced and ensuring stable, healthy communities.
This powerful piece explains why:
heyor.ca/zr4QOY
Take Action to support Just Cause: heyor.ca/rT0NHo
#JustCauseCT
This powerful piece explains why:
heyor.ca/zr4QOY
Take Action to support Just Cause: heyor.ca/rT0NHo
#JustCauseCT
Opinion: Just Cause Eviction is an essential policy for the health and safety of CT residents
In CT, the combination of high housing costs and low vacancy rates has created what some have deemed as the worst place in the country for renters.
heyor.ca
May 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just Cause eviction protections are about protecting Connecticut families from being unfairly displaced and ensuring stable, healthy communities.
This powerful piece explains why:
heyor.ca/zr4QOY
Take Action to support Just Cause: heyor.ca/rT0NHo
#JustCauseCT
This powerful piece explains why:
heyor.ca/zr4QOY
Take Action to support Just Cause: heyor.ca/rT0NHo
#JustCauseCT
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🏡 Meet the Faces of Rental Assistance 🏡
We're sharing the people who could benefit from CT’s Rental Assistance Program (RAP).
👩💼 Meet the Working Mom juggles a full-time job & raising two kids—but rent keeps her on the edge.
CT’s RAP could change that. It’s time to #FundRAP.
We're sharing the people who could benefit from CT’s Rental Assistance Program (RAP).
👩💼 Meet the Working Mom juggles a full-time job & raising two kids—but rent keeps her on the edge.
CT’s RAP could change that. It’s time to #FundRAP.
April 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🏡 Meet the Faces of Rental Assistance 🏡
We're sharing the people who could benefit from CT’s Rental Assistance Program (RAP).
👩💼 Meet the Working Mom juggles a full-time job & raising two kids—but rent keeps her on the edge.
CT’s RAP could change that. It’s time to #FundRAP.
We're sharing the people who could benefit from CT’s Rental Assistance Program (RAP).
👩💼 Meet the Working Mom juggles a full-time job & raising two kids—but rent keeps her on the edge.
CT’s RAP could change that. It’s time to #FundRAP.
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Both Governor Lamont and the General Assembly have proposed budgets that invest in key housing programs—expanding rental assistance, boosting affordable housing development, and protecting our most vulnerable residents.
Learn more: heyor.ca/YddUXO
Learn more: heyor.ca/YddUXO
April 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Both Governor Lamont and the General Assembly have proposed budgets that invest in key housing programs—expanding rental assistance, boosting affordable housing development, and protecting our most vulnerable residents.
Learn more: heyor.ca/YddUXO
Learn more: heyor.ca/YddUXO
Nearly 1 in 5 CT lawmakers are landlords. Could that affect policy? ctmirror.org/2025/04/27/c...
Nearly 1 in 5 CT lawmakers are landlords. Could that affect policy?
Several lawmakers said they can’t help but be shaped by their experiences, and that those experiences help color policy debate.
ctmirror.org
April 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Nearly 1 in 5 CT lawmakers are landlords. Could that affect policy? ctmirror.org/2025/04/27/c...
Great reporting from Ginny Monk. Nearly 1 in 5 CT lawmakers are landlords. I'd like to know how many Housing Committee members are landlords. The conflicts are obvious. Committee members should disclose whether they are landlords. ctmirror.org/2025/04/27/c...
Nearly 1 in 5 CT lawmakers are landlords. Could that affect policy?
Several lawmakers said they can’t help but be shaped by their experiences, and that those experiences help color policy debate.
ctmirror.org
April 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Great reporting from Ginny Monk. Nearly 1 in 5 CT lawmakers are landlords. I'd like to know how many Housing Committee members are landlords. The conflicts are obvious. Committee members should disclose whether they are landlords. ctmirror.org/2025/04/27/c...
New apartments approved in Fairfield - 96 total with 29 set-aside for lower and moderate income tenants. Without question these homes would have been denied but for CT's Affordable Housing Appeals Procedure (8-30g). Our housing shortage continues. Imagine how worse it would be without 8-30g.
April 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New apartments approved in Fairfield - 96 total with 29 set-aside for lower and moderate income tenants. Without question these homes would have been denied but for CT's Affordable Housing Appeals Procedure (8-30g). Our housing shortage continues. Imagine how worse it would be without 8-30g.
An affordable housing proposal won one of its 3 battles in court after a judge found that New Canaan’s water pollution authority wrongfully rejected its application. The WPCA’s rejection was “devoid of evidentiary support and constituted an abuse of discretion.”
www.ctinsider.com/news/new-can...
www.ctinsider.com/news/new-can...
Court sides with New Canaan developer in first part of battle over proposed 8-30g project's denial
The Superior Court of Hartford sided with Arnold Karp's 8-30g development at 17 and 23 Hill Street over New Canaan's Water Pollution Control Authority.
www.ctinsider.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
An affordable housing proposal won one of its 3 battles in court after a judge found that New Canaan’s water pollution authority wrongfully rejected its application. The WPCA’s rejection was “devoid of evidentiary support and constituted an abuse of discretion.”
www.ctinsider.com/news/new-can...
www.ctinsider.com/news/new-can...
60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts. www.ctpost.com/news/politic...
60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts
The program was allocated $5 billion to help pull people out of homelessness, domestic...
www.ctpost.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts. www.ctpost.com/news/politic...
Casey and Tom are rock star advocates. This common sense reform will go a long way to allowing, once again, the kind of development that made us love CT in the first place. No one loves wasteful sprawl. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
Connecticut Towns Are Losing Millions to Parking Minimums. Will Lawmakers Act?
A new push for parking reform in Connecticut reveals just how much public space and revenue towns are losing to outdated requirements.
www.strongtowns.org
April 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Casey and Tom are rock star advocates. This common sense reform will go a long way to allowing, once again, the kind of development that made us love CT in the first place. No one loves wasteful sprawl. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
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"Say you want to build a bowling alley....In West #Hartford, you’d be required to build 8 parking spaces for every lane. In #Wethersfield, that number drops to 5. And in #Ridgefield? Just 4. The differences aren’t based on data or demand — they’re arbitrary."
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
Connecticut Towns Are Losing Millions to Parking Minimums. Will Lawmakers Act?
A new push for parking reform in Connecticut reveals just how much public space and revenue towns are losing to outdated requirements.
www.strongtowns.org
April 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"Say you want to build a bowling alley....In West #Hartford, you’d be required to build 8 parking spaces for every lane. In #Wethersfield, that number drops to 5. And in #Ridgefield? Just 4. The differences aren’t based on data or demand — they’re arbitrary."
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...