Thomas Broderick

CT housing advocates have a positive, future-oriented vision of a state that is growing and maintaining everything that makes it great.

The surest solution to ending wrong-way crashes is understanding that the problem of traffic violence is systemic.

When it comes to the two most important issues in a family’s life —housing and education— the Gold Coast’s wealthiest towns feel no obligation to Connecticut and its people.

School drop-off lines are a symptom of our broken transportation and land-use systems, and a more family-friendly Connecticut should include streets that are safe enough for kids to navigate independently.

We need state leadership to usher in a just, housing-abundant Fairfield County and help thousands achieve their American Dream.

Is Fairfield County a region-wide country club for those able to buy one of the limited member slots?

We haven’t internalized an important lesson from Connecticut’s history — expanding roads and highways fails to deliver traffic congestion relief.

We need to build housing near train stations now, and state-level action on transit-oriented development is the best way to achieve that.

The recent pedestrian safety bill, HB 5429, is an important — if small — first step toward making Connecticut safer for walking and biking. But unless the bill is paired with changes to our road design and zoning, our streets will continue to be dangerous places for pedestrians and cyclists. The bill’s two key provisions […]

In a March 24 opinion piece titled A plea for a hold on zoning reform, author Alexis Harrison of Fairfield attacked H.B. 6107 and (without naming it) S.B. 1024. As a fellow Fairfield County resident (from the neighboring town of Trumbull) who thinks zoning reform is one key to building a more prosperous and inclusive Connecticut, I’d like to counter its claims and make an argument of my own. 

With the 25th anniversary of the Sheff v. O’Neill decision coming up in July, it’s time to fulfill the ruling’s true legacy and reform exclusionary zoning in Connecticut.