News Updates
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Paterson Woman Continues to Take Action to Help Those in Need
Since 2017 Sharonda Roberts has provided portable showers—and dignity—to those in need of services in Paterson. Roberts, through her organization Muture Sisters, sets out up to three portable shower stalls throughout the summer for the city’s homeless population. Sometimes Roberts also hosts a cookout alongside the showers. And she always provides free clothing and bathing products and invites organizations to come and help connect people to social services. Learn more about the shower program. Keep reading »
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Camden Program Helps Families with Low-Incomes Become Homeowners
Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society in New Jersey buys abandoned properties in the city, rehabilitates them and sells them at a significant discount to people who otherwise don’t have the resources to become homeowners. Father Bob McDermott, a former parish priest who grew up in Camden, founded the Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society in 1985 because he was determined to rebuild the community and restore it to the kind of family-friendly environment he remembered as a child. Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society is currently renovating and then selling about a dozen homes a year. Learn more about this program in Camden. Keep reading »
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Two Paths to Affordable Housing, Or Not
A study, released in January by the public policy think tank New Jersey Future, compared Morris and Monmouth counties, two white, affluent and largely suburban counties that the nonprofit says have taken different paths in dealing with state housing mandates. Affordable housing has developed in both counties in markedly different ways that have led to more or less racial integration, differing distributions of affordable housing, and contrasting compliance with housing legislation. Keep reading »
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State Assembly Passes Bill to Make Changes to Affordable Housing
New Jersey lawmakers have advanced legislation (A-4) they say would lead towns to take a more creative approach to solving the state’s shortage of affordable housing. Keep reading »
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Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Get Chance to Keep Homes
Family members, lower income bidders, tenants and community development corporations will have an easier time purchasing foreclosed homes after Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill Friday that overhauls the sheriff’s sale process.` Keep reading »
