Local Best Practices
Building Stable Communities: Joining Forces to Fight Foreclosure in Essex County, NJ
NeighborWorks America’s Stable Communities Initiative, in partnership with the Northeast District Office, is pleased to share a new video that features three NeighborWorks organizations in Northern New Jersey, HANDS, Inc., Brand New Day and La Casa de Don Pedro, that are stabilizing communities impacted by the foreclosure crisis.
These organizations are using a $20 million award from Round 2 of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program to purchase and rehabilitate foreclosed properties, build new units on vacant lots, and place new homebuyers into homes in Newark and Essex County. The NSP2 consortium, led by the City of Newark, is composed of 17 public and private partners and is supported by data and research capabilities provided by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Joining Forces to Fight Foreclosure in Essex County Video
Local Perspectives on HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program
Commissioned by the National Community Stabilization Trust, this research report examines the experience of three localities implementing Neighborhood Stabilization Program-funded activities and the strategies developed in Rialto, Calif., Phoenix, Ariz., and Denver, Colo., to successfully carry out the goals of the program.
Local Perspectives on HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (2011)
Laura Searfoss, M.U.R.P, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
More coming soon!
