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Thursday, September 4, 2025 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM - Please join us for All In for Milford's August Community Gathering!  We will learn about our current housing, food and transportation initiatives, engage with each other in small groups, and share on ways to help make the city we love a community where everyone has a place to live and food to eat; where everyone's voice is heard, and we all can thrive! [ more ]

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July 24, 2025 - by Jesse Williams, All In for Milford - Everyone needs a place to live. That is something not seriously debated or disputed by Connecticut policymakers. What was debated, disputed-–and in the end, discarded–- is the idea that the places people live should not be suddenly, and without justification, taken away from them. "Just Cause" eviction protections, which prevent landlords removing a tenant without cause, already exist for seniors ... [ more ]

July 8, 2025 - by Janhavi Munde and Ginny Monk, CT Mirror - Local land-use boards, which make zoning decisions about where housing, businesses and industrial spaces get built in each Connecticut town, are disproportionately composed of older, white male homeowners — and not demographically representative of the communities they serve, a study of New London and Fairfield Counties found ... [ more ]

June 12, 2025 - by Marti LoMonaco - The Woodruff Family YMCA hosted the All In for Milford June Community Gathering, which focused on community and mental health: what local services are available, how to find them, and how to assist friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens to get the help they need. The evening was enveloped in warm hospitality from start to finish, with a delicious potluck meal, cards for everyone to fill out to make follow-up dates with folks met during the evening, and invitations to get more involved in AIFM ... [ more ]

June 6, 2025 - by James Watson, CT Mirror - In Connecticut, landlords must legally have "just cause" in order to evict a tenant who is either over 62 years old or has a disability. That includes not paying rent, not abiding by the rental contract, engaging in certain illegal activities or putting other tenants' health or safety at risk. For years, tenants and their advocates have been urging lawmakers to extend those protections to all renters in the state. The proposal has now failed three years in a row ... [ more ]

May 13, 2025 - by Mark Pazniokas - CT Mirror - In rising last week to make his first speech to the Connecticut House of Representatives, Rep. MJ Shannon, D-Milford, stepped onto one of America's culture-war battlefields: a debate over transgender rights that President Donald J. Trump is intent on erasing.  Shannon, a 24-year-old gay man elected last fall, said he was making a gesture to aging gay-rights pioneers by volunteering to take on the task of explaining, defending and seeking passage of House Bill ... [ more ]

How Collaboration and Collective Action can Cultivate a Safe and Healthy Community
April 2025 - by Jesse Williams, All In for Milford - as published in Milford City Lifestyle Magazine - Your community is your church, your neighbors, your job, your family and your friends. But those things are not themselves the foundation of a city or town or neighborhood -- not the structures that allow it to exist and thrive. What a community is actually built on is much less abstract: housing that people can afford, food that people can access, streets that people can feel safe on ... [ more ]

March 1, 2025 - The City of Milford is conducting a survey to identify residents' needs throughout the city. This survey will help the City prepare its Five-Year Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding. Please take a few minutes and complete this confidential survey questionnaire. You may complete this survey form online or return a completed hard copy of the survey to the Milford Department of Economic and Community Development ... [ more ]

February 6, 2025 - by Marti LoMonaco - All In for Milford’s February gathering picked up right where we left off in January, exploring Fair Housing and how we can work together to get the Just Cause Bill passed in the 2025 Legislative Session. We were graciously hosted by the Woodruff Family YMCA with lots of goodies provided by stalwart AIFM members ... [ more ]

February 1, 2025 - by Jesse Williams  - There is nothing dramatic in Carol Martin’s tone or demeanor as she stands at the podium, in the high-ceilinged, sterile Milford City Hall chamber adorned with the usual historic frames and flags, with a row of potted faux-poinsettias adding a little color to the room. In front of her, sitting behind their high desk are ten members of the Planning & Zoning board – ten impassive faces, waiting on her. Martin doesn't have a preamble, or a pitch. She introduces herself, and gets right into it ... [ more ]

January 14, 2025 - Opinion by Anderson Curtis and Jennifer Paradis - CT MIRROR - Last month, a man named Hassau Powell died inside the walls of Yale’s health system, after presumably living there for some time. If you read the news about this, you were probably as confused as we were. Vague details made his last moments a mystery.   One thing was consistent, however: Powell was called a “squatter” — a person deemed unbelonging inside of a physical system. The irony will hit you in the face ... [ more ]

January 9, 2025 – by Marti LoMonaco - All In for Milford welcomed the New Year with one of its largest Community Gatherings to date - Housing for All: What We Can Do Now!  Over eighty people, from Milford, Orange, Woodbridge, and towns up and down Route 8, gathered at 6:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall at First United Church of Christ where a delicious spread from Pop’s Restaurant provided a hearty dinner ... [ more ]

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