A community celebration and formal announcement of We Live Here/New London, an exhibition on housing past and present, September – December 2026.

Andrei Harwell, executive director of the Yale Urban Design Workshop and the 2025-26 Krane Art History Scholar-in-Residence, will introduce the New London Building Dossiers project, a collaboration with Connecticut College students.

Beryl Satter, professor emerita of history at Rutgers University, previews her forthcoming book Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods (May 2026).

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.

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). 

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.