A new course brings together three Yale professional schools with community partners to find real-world solutions to the state’s affordable housing crisis.

In Housing Connecticut: Developing Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhoods, Yale Law School students and faculty join counterparts from the Yale School of Architecture and the Yale School of Management to create proposals for adding homes to New Haven. Their assignment is to create building projects anchored in affordable housing that more broadly consider additional community needs.

What helps set the course apart is a commitment from the state of Connecticut for up to $3 million in funding for projects deemed feasible. That means the students’ efforts, ranging from a cluster of houses to a mixed-used development, have the potential to exist not just on paper but in two New Haven neighborhoods — Newhallville and Fair Haven — and on a faster timetable than typically possible.

“We know that we are not only engaged in a learning experience but are also actually putting together an affordable housing development that could someday provide real shelter, community, and resources for Newhallville,” said Raymond Fang ’24, a law student in the class. “It’s been a great motivation for us.”

The course came about after a conversation between Andrei Harwell, Senior Critic in Architecture at Yale School of Architecture, and Connecticut Commissioner of Housing Seila Mosquera-Bruno, herself a former nonprofit housing developer. Harwell...

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