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Old 05-05-2014, 08:30 PM
 
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I think if i were Hamden, i would turn the section of Woodin Street running from Mueller to Wintergreen into a westbound one-way street.


New Haven to remove fence dividing West Rock public housing developments and Hamden
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Old 05-05-2014, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Wallingford, CT
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Oh, but it's a newly renovated housing project. I'm sure it'll look great!


For 6 months.
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Old 05-05-2014, 09:41 PM
 
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Oh, but it's a newly renovated housing project. I'm sure it'll look great!


For 6 months.
It appears that units are only 30 years old. It isn't uncommon to find privately owned homes in CT that haven't been renovated in 50 years.

WTH, it's only taxpayer money. Give them Corian!
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Old 05-06-2014, 02:41 PM
 
Location: New York
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I forgot all about this whole little issue, and I've lived in Hamden for quite sometime now. A fence?? I'm sorry, do we still live in the 1950s??? Why was this fence erected in the first place? And to keep out undesirables does not make sense. I'm sure people who live on BOTH sides are competent enough to determine how to get around the fence. Whatever happened to neighborhood watch, police patrol, etc...a fence, really????
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Old 05-06-2014, 03:39 PM
 
Location: Seymour, CT
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The fence will just get damaged and they will spend money to repair it over and over. Really what is this... The Great Wall of China? Maybe the North Korean / South Korean border?
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Old 05-06-2014, 04:05 PM
 
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It keeps the White Walkers out.
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Old 05-06-2014, 04:09 PM
 
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It's a fence, who cares. That's not stopping anything....The people wanting it torn down are just as dumb as the people wanting to keep it up.

The new haven mayor sounds like a complete moron on the news.
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Old 05-06-2014, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Wallingford, CT
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Whatever happened to neighborhood watch, police patrol, etc...a fence, really????
Didn't New Haven do a bunch of layoffs on their police dept? Or did they just not hire any new cops? I don't remember. I don't think they have the man power to do that many patrols, quite frankly. Neighborhood watches are a joke, and at least the fence keeps the view consistent.
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Old 05-06-2014, 11:42 PM
 
Location: Somewhere on the Moon.
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Oh, but it's a newly renovated housing project. I'm sure it'll look great!

For 6 months.
A few public housing complexes have been renovated (more like rebuilt) in Stamford and they look great even though it has been years. Many of them look so nice that it's hard to believe they are public housing.

I don't know if public housing residents in Stamford are different from those in NH-Hamden (I'm thinking in terms of overall cost of living even with subsidized housing which could affect what type of people live in Stamford public housing vs other cheaper places), but I wouldn't be surprised if there is some sort of difference. I'm of the belief that the poor people that live in Stamford are probably at the upper end of the poor, because its simply too expensive for poor people to actually make ends meet around here, even with government assistance. The poorest of the poor can get more for their very limited money further north.

Anyway, assuming there is not much difference, then there's no reason to think the renovation will not last long.
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Old 05-08-2014, 10:44 AM
 
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Mayor Toni Harp's comment on this - "it's a very different income mix than was there before".

LOL -
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