Lily Belle Poling
Staff Reporter
@lilybellepoling | lily.poling@yale.edu
Lily Belle Poling covers housing and homelessness and climate and the environment. She is also a production and design editor and lays out the weekly print. Originally from Montgomery, Alabama, she is a sophomore in Branford College majoring in Global Affairs and English.
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LILY BELLE POLING
New Haven is experiencing a ‘severe drought’ as fires blaze to the north

In a moment of sheer irony, rain fell in New Haven Thursday at the same time the city and state were declared to be experiencing “severe drought.”

November 21, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Unhoused group remains camped on Green, Elicker warns of “large piles of things”

A month after a homeless encampment was established on the Green, a group of individuals has remained camped out, despite multiple arrests and the city’s removal of unattended belongings.

November 19, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Former Ocean tenants picket office of new landlord

Members of the Quinnipiac Avenue Tenant Union picketed the office of their new landlord Hammock Home Management, which is run by former Ocean Management employee Yohay Levram.

November 15, 2024

TINA LI, JOSIE REICH & LILY BELLE POLING
Yalies cast New Haven ballots after absentee voting issues

Yale Votes helped facilitate New Haven voting for Yalies who chose to vote in Connecticut or who could not vote in their home states.

November 6, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING & TINA LI
New study ranks Bridgeport-New Haven fourth most competitive rental market in U.S.

Housing experts told the News that constraints on housing supply and increased challenges with affordability created an overheated rental market.

October 30, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
IN PHOTOS: Police arrest seven, clear tents at homeless encampment on Green

October 28, 2024

ARIELA LOPEZ & LILY BELLE POLING
Police arrest seven, clear tents at homeless encampment on Green

Seven activists, including two Yale students and one unhoused individual, were arrested Monday morning after refusing to remove tents from an ongoing protest against New Haven’s homeless encampment sweeps.

October 28, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
City leaders propose more checks on landlords, expanding tenants’ unionization power

New Haven officials announced a new proposal to give the city power to reduce tenants’ rent if landlords are noncompliant, allow more tenants to unionize and protect tenants from retaliation.

October 23, 2024

ETHAN WOLIN & LILY BELLE POLING
Alders beef up housing code enforcement, raise fines

On Monday, the Board of Alders passed an ordinance amendment to bolster the Livable City Initiative’s efforts to punish landlords who violate the housing code.

October 22, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Could Harris’ policies mitigate New Haven’s housing crisis?

Vice President Kamala Harris hopes to address the lack of affordable housing. It remains unclear what her policies would mean for New Haven.

October 21, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
How can homeless New Haveners vote in the 2024 election?

Registering to vote can be challenging for homeless people. The News looked into how unhoused individuals can still vote without a place of residence or an ID.

October 21, 2024