NEW hAVEN

HOUSING INITIATIVE

  • A More Walkable, Sustainable Village Center

  • Fostering Growth with Community based infrastructure

  • With homes affordable to all New Haven residents, new and old

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Our
Goals

  • HOUSING

    Our goal is to increase the number of middle-income affordable homes and senior housing. That way, folks who already call New Haven home are more able to stay, and folks who want to move here are more able to join our community.

  • WALKABILITY

    Walkability and pedestrian safety is a critical aspect of any lively, rural village. We’d like to our kids to feel safe walking from school to the town green to get a creemee.

  • MUNICIPAL SEPTIC

    Any rural homeowner knows how costly septic installation and maintenance can be. Let’s share that resource as a community so that fewer households have to carry those costs on their own.

  • SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

    Our goal is to support the amazing farms and small businesses that already exist in New Haven, and foster new business growth wherever possible.

Where we’re focusing our efforts

Greater Village Area: In this area we want to support existing

homeowners who want to build Accessory Dwellings on their

property to help age in place, provide passive income, or create

multi-generational homes

Village Core: Walkable, active village area where we want to

foster development of new multi-family homes such as senior

housing, co-housing, or cottage courts. In this area we want to

create new infrastructure such as sidewalks, bike paths, lighting,

and municipal septic. We also want to support existing

businesses and foster the creation of new ones.

The types of Housing We’re Hoping For

Our
Team

  • Jeff Pratt

  • Rick Shappy

  • Al Karnatz

  • Michael Chaucer

  • Pamela Sonn

  • Florian Oberhuber

  • Tim Bouton

  • Susan Smiley

  • Pam Marsh

  • Harry Chaucer

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