Excellent development that will bring new housing and retail to a neighborhood that desperately needs it

This is a long-planned, local, New Havener-focused development which is widely supported by Dixwell’s longtime Black community. We are fortunate to get such a project.

I think the bigger question is - is there a landlord in New Haven that ISN’T a complete slumlord???

That just means the city is actually improving and attracting additional demand. That’s a good thing.

I agree but we were able to win this so far: https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/inclusionary_zoning_3

Hopefully we can continue to take the fight to Yale and build on this.

I think YIMBYs are wrong to trust the market to magically fix housing costs when in reality so much development leads to gentrification and displacement but If we are converting useless and ugly strip malls and parking lots into mixed use developments that actually add affordable units then that’s good. We can continue to force rents down through our political work.

Get involved with New Haven Rising and Recovery for All (and cpusa) if you are interested in community organizing.

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Mandy Management's maintenance team caused a fire in the unit above my apartment. Fire department had to put it out with water, not chemical extinguishers, due to the wood floor burning. All that water poured into my apartment. The whole experience was a nightmare. They have so many unsafe conditions in their buildings. My apartment being flooded and their terrible repairs was just the icing on a shit cake. Never ever ever rent from Mandy.

They towed my car from my own apartment complex. Absolute bs! Never fixed anything. Slumlords to the 10th power.

Based on their softball team, they are subpar

Reading the OP’s linked New Haven Register article, the plans for the development also include a new grocery store, day care center, etc. More housing with additional services in the lower Dixwell neighborhood appears positive.

It's most definitely not worth it. They're slumlords that don't give a single fuck about you; you're just a number in a large cog of thousands of units. Like the other posts say, same thing with Farnham, Ocean, and Pike. Don't do it unless you're on the brink of homelessness.

Of course they put you in contact with someone who said it's been fine; why would they refer you to someone who has created maintenance requests or sued them?

Paris and Urban Haven are both the same slumlord company

Seabury is Racist AF lol

Farnam has been in bed with Mandy/ Ocean since 2018…

Yeah, RIP dixwell

Avoid Urban Haven. Literal scumbags

Yeah, that’s the prevailing wisdom, but they could provide more and didn’t .

New haven has added something like a thousand units of market rate housing in the last three years and prices have not come down. So much for granola theories

I mean, you can build a 174 unit complex that is 100% affordable if you want. I'm happy that there us 174 more units coming onto an almost non existent market and that there are now 34 more subsidized places

Yes MM is really that bad. I suggest avoiding Paris Realty as well. More specifically do not move to 66 Norton.

Avoid it like a plague. Worst management.

I agree on Seabury

Don’t do it

Wish I could say I'm shocked 🥴 I'm sorry you had to go through that.

So glad my complex formed a tenants union... Ocean is the epitome of a slumlord.

I disagree, I used Seabury Hill to find a landlord my first year and got an absolute slumlord that resulted in multiple lawsuits by the tenants. I informed Seabury Hill and they said they didn’t care — so make sure to independently vet landlord if you use them as they aren’t always trustworthy

Avoid Roseann Iuvone if you are a person of color, she made racist comments about my friendly neighbors, and overall sucked. Disorganized, arrived at the wrong time, needed to borrow keys from tenants, etc.