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
Second group of New Haven tenants protest widely criticized landlord 

Residents of the 312-unit Sunset Ridge Apartments accused Capital Realty Group of harassment, unsafe conditions and efforts to undermine union organizing at a Thursday press conference.

October 12, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS, LEO NYBERG & BRADY PAYNE
Jewish community vigil marks two years since Oct. 7 attacks

On Sunday evening, two Jewish student groups hosted a vigil at the Women’s Table honoring those who have been killed since Oct. 7, 2023, and people still held hostage.

October 6, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS & NORAH MCPARTLAND
Ten-year blueprint for New Haven development greenlit by alders

With the Board of Alders’ backing, New Haven’s decadelong Vision 2034 plan faces a public hearing on Oct. 15 before its likely adoption.

September 30, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS & KADE GAJDUSEK
West Rock tenants union seeks non-retaliation deal amid national push

Park Ridge Apartments tenants union leaders and supporters, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal, urged Capital Realty Group to return to the bargaining table at a Friday press conference.

September 29, 2025

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