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
Drake’s “OVO” clothing brand launches Yale merchandise

The Yale Bookstore and October’s Very Own are selling Yale-licensed apparel.

September 25, 2024

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Three tenants unions to bargain with mega-landlord in same week

Tenants unions from three Ocean Management properties have collective bargaining meetings this week with Ocean head Shmulik Aizenberg.

September 23, 2024

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Take a walk through Fair Haven — a neighborhood marked by environmental injustice

A new tour series takes participants on a journey through New Haven’s Mill River district, highlighting the environmental impacts of numerous man-made structures in the neighborhood.

September 19, 2024

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Nonprofits kickoff first dinner-and-a-movie experience for homeless shelters

Two local nonprofit organizations partnered to serve homeless women and children at the Life Haven shelter a hot dinner paired with a movie fresh out of theaters — the first of many the nonprofits hope to host across the state.

September 17, 2024

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Under new leadership, LCI is ramping up housing code enforcement

New Haven’s primary housing code enforcement agency is no longer overseeing affordable housing development. Instead, it will direct its energy towards holding landlords accountable.

September 13, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Tenants union protest interrupted by deals with Ocean Management, Farnam Realty

Ocean Management and Farnam Realty Group both offered tenants unions a return to the bargaining table in exchange for stopping their protests — after at least a month of silence from both companies, the unions said.

September 12, 2024

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Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation receives over $1.5 million to embrace electric vehicles

With the help of a federal grant, the Tribe — residing in southeastern Connecticut — will transition its gas-powered fleet to electric or hybrid vehicles and encourage its residents to do the same.

September 9, 2024

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Hartford, New Haven youth successfully advocate for free student bus passes

With transportation equity and sustainability in mind, students in Hartford and New Haven are working to secure free bus fares for all public school students.

September 4, 2024

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Academy-nominated directors, Grammy singers, renowned architects and more. Here are the high-profile creatives that graced Yale’s stages last year.

With names like TwoSet Violin, David Rockwell and Lee Isaac Chung, the Yale community heard from some of the world’s most well-regarded artists, across a wide range of disciplines.

August 30, 2024

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Looking back: A year of protests on Israel and Palestine at Yale

During the 2023–24 academic year, the war in Gaza sent ripples through the Yale community as students grappled with grief and dissented against the war. The News compiled a timeline of protests and other demonstrations on the topic of Israel and Palestine from the past year.

August 30, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Newly opened REST Center provides evaluation and stabilization services to adults in crisis

New Haven’s new mental health services center will serve as a central location for first responders to bring individuals experiencing non-emergency crises.

August 28, 2024