This year’s YIMBYtown conference in New Haven was organized by Desegregate Connecticut, which advocated for House Bill 5002, the measure vetoed this summer by Connecticut’s Democratic Gov. The conference comes just months after Lamont vetoed H.B. Lamont said he wanted to get towns on board with housing legislation when he vetoed the measure. A measure to require towns to allow the conversion of commercial space to residential was in the vetoed Connecticut bill. In Connecticut, lawmakers said Lamont was under public pressure to veto the bill from outside groups and some constituents from Fairfield County.