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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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

KADE GAJDUSEK & JAKE ROBBINS
Blumenthal backs new West Rock tenants union seeking meeting with landlord

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Park Ridge Tenant Union organizers said Capital Realty Group had received federal subsidies while neglecting maintenance at the apartment complex.

August 15, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Locals protest ICE’s detainment of high school student

A rising junior at Wilbur Cross High School was detained by ICE at his workplace on July 21 and has since been shipped to a detention center in Louisiana, rally organizers stated.

July 31, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Hundreds call for affordable housing and job opportunities at union-led rally

The rally, led by organizers with UNITE HERE unions and the affiliated group New Haven Rising, drew residents pushing for economic support for working-class New Haveners.

July 30, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Hormone-based gender-affirming care for patients under 19 discontinued at YNHH

Yale New Haven Hospital will no longer provide gender-affirming medication treatments for patients under 19, after “monitoring” federal executive orders.

July 26, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Yale scientists warn Medicaid cuts could cause 51,000 preventable deaths

A new letter signed by Yale researchers links proposed health policy changes to a projected surge in mortality, marking a rare scientific attempt to quantify the human toll of legislation.

June 26, 2025

ISOBEL MCCLURE & JAKE ROBBINS
Yalies express pride in University’s move to legally back Harvard

Students voiced support for the University’s decision to file an amicus brief in one of Havard’s lawsuits against the Trump administration.

June 22, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Yale Police union votes to authorize strike amid stalled contract negotiations

The vote does not trigger an immediate walkout but gives the union power to strike with 30 days’ notice.

June 6, 2025