Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven recently completed four affordable homes purchased by local residents.

The group demanded electricity be connected in their encampment of tiny homes. Their rallying efforts helped lead to a tentative agreement Friday with New Haven city officials to have electricity connected as early as the next day.

“Our Feet Began to Pray” by the Afro-Semitic Experience releases Jan. 19.

City building officials say the homes do not have heat or electricity and are not up to code. Residents use the bathroom and kitchen located inside the main house on the property.

New Haven’s existing ADU regulations went into effect in 2021. The rules include various specifications including a minimum lot size. It is also required that the landowner live on the property.

Deborah Jimenez, 44, and her partner have two well-cared for huskies and a cat. They keep them fenced in, in their room at a former Days Inn hotel, which is now a 24-hour homeless shelter.

The records will be automatically erased, but the law only erases low-level offenses and some felonies. That’s after legal pushback led to revisions to the list of eligible convictions, according to CT Mirror.

Residents from Ansonia, Shelton and surrounding municipalities, met Monday at Ansonia city hall to share their stories and urged lawmakers to seek more federal aid to use toward home heating assistance.

A lone protestor placed a Palestinian flag atop a 30-foot-tall menorah on the New Haven Green over the weekend, spawning immediate condemnation from other protestors and local officials.

Michael DiMassa,who represented the city of West Haven, was sentenced to 27 months in prison last May for stealing more than $1.2 million from the city.