Jake Robbins
Staff Reporter
jake.robbins@yale.edu
Jake Robbins is a beat reporter at the Yale Daily News. He reports on housing, homelessness and development. Jake is from Dallas, Texas, and is a sophomore in Benjamin Franklin College studying Molecular Biochemistry and English.
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JAKE ROBBINS & TAJRIAN KHAN
National ‘pro-homes’ conference arrives in New Haven

YIMBYtown 2025 has brought hundreds of zoning reform advocates to New Haven to discuss affordable housing, racial justice, climate and transit.

September 15, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
New Haven looks to set Guinness World Record for largest pizza party

Local organizers hoping to set a world record are planning for up to 5,000 attendees to gather on the New Haven Green for a pizza party on Friday.

September 11, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS & ELIJAH HUREWITZ-RAVITCH
From small town to small city, Laughter shaped by working-class roots

On her right arm, Norah Laughter has a tattoo of images from her home in Kentucky.

September 9, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Officials, developers celebrate apartment complex being built in Wooster Square

Mayor Justin Elicker, Alder Carmen Rodriguez and local real estate developers launched Twenty Fair, a 168-unit complex coming to Wooster Square.

September 8, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS & ADELE HAEG
New Haven man identified as victim of electrocution at Yale Golf Course

Luís Alberto Morocho Marcatoma, 54, was born in Ecuador and spent most of his life there, according to an online obituary describing him as a lover of the outdoors.

August 29, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Students who cannot vote in the Ward 1 alder race engage anyway

Six of Yale’s 14 residential colleges — Benjamin Franklin, Morse, Pauli Murray, Silliman, Ezra Stiles and Timothy Dwight — are located outside of the downtown district.

August 29, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Newest New Haven tenants union joins with Detroit counterpart for negotiations

Capital Realty Group agreed to a follow-up meeting with New Haven’s Park Ridge Tenant Union and a Detroit tenants union, Connecticut organizers said.

August 29, 2025

ADELE HAEG & JAKE ROBBINS
No answers one week after man was fatally electrocuted on Yale property

University and state officials have remained tight-lipped about a contractor’s death while working on the Yale Golf Course last Thursday.

August 29, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
City’s newest tenants union to bargain with national corporate landlord

The president of Capital Realty Group will meet with tenants from both New Haven’s Park Ridge Apartments and an apartment complex in Detroit over Zoom Wednesday morning.

August 27, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
City officials hope for housing around park pitched to replace abandoned plant

As New Haven plans to turn the English Station site into a public park, economic development officials said the project could unlock new housing and development in Mill River.

August 27, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Contractor killed by electrocution at Yale’s golf course

The worker was electrocuted by a downed power line Thursday, the University said. Yale’s top public safety administrator personally examined the scene.

August 24, 2025