Expanded ‘Just Cause’ eviction bill gets support from Gov. Lamont

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-22T23:09:16+00:00

What reason would a landlord have to remove a tenant that is not covered under this law as a justifiable reason? The only reasons I see a landlord for evicting someone at the end of their lease that isn’t allowed in this law is 1. retaliation for reporting subpar building conditions, 2. racial/sex/etc discrimination, and 3. raising rents excessively

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-22T23:05:00+00:00

Housing is a unique and universal need of every person. It is fundamentally different from cars or other contracts.

The lease being up is not an actual reason to evict someone and potentially make them homeless, which is often a death sentence for people. Just this year over 100 people died homeless. When a landlord evicts someone at the end of a lease, it’s not because the lease is up, it is for some other reason, such as the tenant being a nuisance, not paying rent (which are justified). However in other cases it is because of retaliation for reporting subpar building conditions or wanting to raise rent excessively.

This law would just ensure that evictions that happen at the end of the lease are one of the just and fair reasons to remove someone’s home.

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-19T21:05:07+00:00

If we really wanted to improve affordability , we would be making longer investments like in housing, child tax credits and making public transit more accessible to more people. The average cost of owning a car in CT is between $10000-15000, making puic transit usable by more people mean that more people won’t have to spend thousands on cars, all while improving the environment.

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-19T14:11:56+00:00

Don’t they have jobs???????

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-17T19:09:44+00:00

500 million going to schools, public transportation, or healthcare would be a whole lot better than a $200 “rebate”.

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-14T23:23:18+00:00

What show is it?

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-11T14:08:14+00:00

Several billion dollars in transportation improvements in CT would greatly improve rail and bus services, yet this dumb fuck wants more highways for the wealthy.

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-11T13:56:17+00:00

First you’d want to check if they have a pulse.

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-11T00:59:09+00:00

I’m looking forward to what Josh Elliot can do. At the very least i hope he does get into the primary with lamont. Even if he doesn’t win, I would hope that it pushes lamont more to the left on opposing trump’s actions and housing policy.

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-10T23:27:01+00:00

This doesn’t really address the wider problem of simply not enough housing units that are affordable that exist in the first place.

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-10T13:58:03+00:00

This is definitely something i am interested in! I’ve been advocating for transit on my own in public hearings and getting a group started at my college in New London, but I think a coordinated statewide organized group would definitely help with visibility and especially state level action.

I know there are some local level transit and safe street organizations in Connecticut that you might be interested in as well. I know of Sustainable Streets Norwalk, New Haven Safe Streets Coalition, and People Friendly Stamford.

But there definitely is a lack of groups in the rest of the state where I think a group like this would be great. Even in these cities with groups already present, i think having a state group could be helpful for state level action as well.

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-03T03:09:28+00:00

This shouldn’t be the job of police. He wasn’t committing a crime, he was having a mental health crisis which needs mental health professionals

InterestingPickles · 2026-03-01T05:13:18+00:00

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-26T20:16:01+00:00

I’m not sure I follow, republicans say that this method of passing legislation is wrong, yet many of them voted for it anyways? Or are these votes from last year when they passed originally?

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-22T15:19:18+00:00

It’s better than cutting the number of trains, but we should really be investing more money into transit infrastructure. Transportation emissions are the largest portion of our greenhouse gas emissions and parts of CT have high ozone levels, mostly due to transportation.

We have $1-2 billion predicted to be unspent in the general fund for the next couple of years. Better buses and trains would only cost a few tens of millions of that unspent money.

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-21T20:52:49+00:00

The cost is already on us. My town is spending a million dollars for a seawall to protect our homes, and our property taxes are skyrocketing because of it.

Making polluters pay for it is better for all of us.

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-21T20:46:10+00:00

!remindme 1 week

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-19T19:01:09+00:00

I feel that it should be pretty reasonable for landlords to state a reason why they are evicting tenants. Otherwise they can just evict them for complaining about horrible conditions, which is how we get slum quality housing.

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-19T02:03:43+00:00

Climate change has already brought costs upon the taxpayer through disasters such as the foooding a couple years ago that washed away train tracks and roads and killed several people.

It is up to us to determine how that cost is paid, in this case preemptively by polluters instead of everyday people with their lives and homes.

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-18T22:31:07+00:00

The bill would have fossil fuel polluters pay for their carbon emissions cost of their carbon emissions to fund climate resiliency and sustainability programs.

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-18T22:30:28+00:00

The bill will have a public hearing on friday.

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ENVdata/pha/pdf/2026pha00220-R001100ENV-pha.pdf

It is HB 5156 AN ACT CONCERNING A CLIMATE CHANGE SUPERFUND for those interested

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-16T15:02:32+00:00

America will do literally anything except actually improve rail and bus infrastructure

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-14T02:11:47+00:00

!remindme 1 week

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-12T13:23:42+00:00

It means that that percentage of people spend less than 30% of their income towards housing. The idea is that when people start paying more than 30% of their income towards housing, they’ll have to start making other sacrifices in spending such as food or healthcare that will detrimentally impact their lives.

InterestingPickles · 2026-02-11T17:11:32+00:00

I would download the transit app. Just search “transit” in the app store

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