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COLLAB with New London Landmarks: What If… Design for New London

Affordable homes can be beautiful. Join New London Landmarks and Future Expansion Architects, an award-winning architecture and design office and We Live Here exhibit designers, for a community design workshop to imagine the future of living, housing, and public space in New London. FREE. LIMITED CAPACITY. RSVP REQUESTED.

COLLAB with New London Food Stroll

We’re staying open late for the New London Food Stroll, so make We Live Here: New London one of your stops. Come explore the exhibit, enjoy a tasty treat, and see New London’s housing story in a whole new way. FREE. FOOD STROLL TICKETS NOT NEEDED.

COLLAB with CT Tenants Union: Tenants, Know Your Power

Join staff members from the Connecticut Tenants Union to learn more about building tenant power in our communities. This training will include an introduction to the laws and policies currently shaping the housing conditions of Connecticut renters, an overview of the tenant movement in Connecticut, and a primer on Just Cause. FREE. LIMITED CAPACITY. RSVP REQUESTED.

COLLAB with Pro-Homes CT: Walk Audit of New London Housing

Join us for a Pro Homes Walk Audit through downtown New London to see where new housing is happening within walking distance of trains, buses, and ferries. We’ll explore what this growth can mean for a more connected, accessible, and livable city. FREE. RSVP REQUESTED.

COLLAB with CT Tenants Union: Tenants, Know Your Power

An analysis of the power behind local policies in New London and an explanation as to how the system works, who the players are, and where they stand on renter issues. We will discuss the pathway to building tenant power in New London–from our apartment buildings to our neighborhoods to the city as a whole. FREE. LIMITED CAPACITY. RSVP REQUESTED.

COLLAB with Southeastern CT Community Land Trust (SE CT CLT): Talk on Tap: Understanding Community Land Trusts & the Fight for Community Ownership

First of the two-part conversation series that invites the community to explore the history of land and housing, the systems that shape who gets to own and control them, and what becomes possible when communities imagine something different. Through film, panels, and facilitated conversation, we’ll create space to learn, question, and imagine more equitable approaches to land, housing, and community ownership. FREE. LIMITED CAPACITY. RSVP REQUESTED.

COLLAB with Southeastern CT Community Land Trust (SECT CLT): Talk on Tap: Alternative Economies & Community Control

Second of the two-part conversation series that invites the community to explore the history of land and housing, the systems that shape who gets to own and control them, and what becomes possible when communities imagine something different. Through film, panels, and facilitated conversation, we’ll create space to learn, question, and imagine more equitable approaches to land, housing, and community ownership. FREE. LIMITED CAPACITY. RSVP REQUESTED.

COLLAB with The Day: The State of Housing Today

Leading local housing experts, advocates, officials, and industry professionals will assess the housing landscape in the city and region today. This event pays homage to historical Housing Forums hosted by The Day, New London’s newspaper of record, in decades past. Proceedings will be published in a special section of the newspaper. FREE.