Spring 2026
This year-long series of public conversations brings together prominent scholars, practitioners, advocates, and community members to discuss the role of better housing in strengthening community life in all its aspects.
Connecticut House and Senate legislators will discuss the issues and debates leading to the passage of CT House Bill 8002 in November 2025, a comprehensive effort to encourage the construction of more homes in communities across Connecticut.
Using historical and present-day examples, Adolph Reed, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, outlines the political forces that shaped today’s housing system and what change could look like moving forward. Introduced by Daniel Moak, Associate Professor of Government and author of From the New Deal to the War on Schools: Race, Inequality, and the Rise of the Punitive Education State (2022).
There has been a surge in tenant organizing in New London and surrounding towns in recent months. In this panel discussion, tenant union leaders address causes of recent rental housing problems in the area, as well as their experiences with community organizing.
Beryl Satter, professor emerita of history at Rutgers University, will preview her forthcoming book Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods (May 2026).
A conversation with Krane Art History Scholar-in-Residence Andrei Harwell, Executive Director of the Yale Urban Design Workshop.
A community celebration and formal announcement of We Live Here/New London, an exhibition on housing past and present, September – December 2026.
Public conversations on the history and present-day realities of the housing crisis, presented by Connecticut College and the Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern CT.