New Haven simply isn’t going to feel as big as Boston.

There is a great deal in the way of restaurants, museum, and there is a wonderful art scene, but they exist on the scale of a small city.

Spring break, summer, and winter break will see the city empty out quite a bit since Yale kids leave.

Yeah, and none of that is solved — it just isn’t on your doorstep anymore. None of those people have been helped.

You didn’t want a compassionate solution — you wanted to stop being personally bothered by it.

That’s just the thing: this wasn’t fixed compassionately.

The city just scattered them. Nobody who lived there is any better off now.

I wouldn’t call that compassion.

Does it matter? He gave the order. He isn't interested in doing anything to help people -- he just wants to play Whack-a-Mole with whatever camp springs up. The very existence of a tent city means that he has failed homeless people in New Haven. He knows this and wants to get rid of an embarrassment before he tries for reelection. This camp has been there for years and now its an urgent problem? Its a stunt that will hopefully backfire.

Elicker is a failure of a public servant and this just his way of hiding his failure instead of doing anything to treat the problem. New Haven shelters are overcrowded, dangerous, unsanitary, and degrading -- and his solution is to funnel more people into them? People want to avoid shelters for a reason -- people don't just deny help for no reason. They deny help because they don't trust the city -- and who can blame them?

There will just another camp in a few months. Homelessness is getting worse and worse and it won't go away by dismantling a few tents.

As a former city employee, I can testify that the city is not interested in compassion -- they don't even care about the safety and well-being of their own employees. City Hall is reliably terrible and the public services available to the average person in New Haven is absolutely garbage -- especially compared with Yale.

Yale and New Haven are very different places -- run by and inhabited by very different people.

I’d be amazed if you found a 1BD for that price in most of New Haven. Better option is look for a studio.

Branford has a train service that brings you very close to Yale. There is also a bus line, but most of Branford is too far from it to work. There is also not a ton of rental units compared to New Haven. Branford is an older middle-class town where a lot of older people still own their homes. If you want an apartment near train and bus, you’re gonna need something near Branford center, and those prices are going to rival New Haven.

Connecticut is generally a difficult state to move to