The country’s premier conference for the pro-homes movement will be in Connecticut next month with hundreds of attendees from a wide array of political beliefs, but Gov. Ned Lamont isn’t invited following his veto of a sweeping housing bill earlier this summer.

This year’s YIMBYtown conference, organized by Desegregate Connecticut, is scheduled to be held in New Haven in mid-September. The name stands for the acronym “ Yes In My Back Yard, ” a counter to the “Not in My Back Yard” argument against development of more apartments largely in single-family home neighborhoods.

This marks the first time the national conference will be held in Connecticut.

Lamont in June vetoed House Bill 5002 , which included a provision known as Work, Live, Ride — a policy backed by Desegregate CT — that

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