Newhallville Boards The Transition Express | New Haven Independent

Myra Smith, an organizer with Mothers and Others for Justice and the Room for All Coalition, called out by name the large landlords she sees gobbling up single-family, two-family, and three-family houses in predominantly working-class, African-American neighborhoods like Newhallville.

“Companies like Mandy and Pike go unchecked,” she said. They buy up properties, she said, get approvals from Section 8 housing inspectors, and then fail to keep those buildings up to code.

“They don’t fix things up,” she said, “and that causes stress.”

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Newhallville Boards The Transition Express | New Haven Independent

Three Newhallville advocates rode a school bus from Lincoln Bassett to High School in the Community — not to attend classes, but to join 300 fellow city residents looking to...