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The Project Live Efficiency Apartments is a permanent, affordable and supportive housing development sponsored by Project Live. When completed in January 2008, the Project Live Efficiency Apartments will provide twenty (20) permanent, affordable and supportive housing units for homeless individuals. Every unit will have it’s own kitchen and bathroom.

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A new report from the Urban Institute reviews the results of a federally-funded project to move chronically homeless disabled people directly into housing and help them with health, mental health, substance abuse, and other supportive services. The Skid Row Collaborative was one of 11 demonstration projects funded under the federal government’s Chronic Homeless Initiative in the fall 2003. According to the report, at the three-year milestone, the project had much higher housing retention than a comparison group (59 vs.14 percent) and has proved to be a successful model of housing plus services. To access the report, click here.

This was originally published in KnowledgePlex.

These are the links for the final articles from the Asbury Park Series.

Bill would create fund for affordable housing Thursday, Sep 20, 2007
For more than 30 years, state law has required that New Jersey’s increasingly pricey suburban communities open the door to more housing in town for people of low and moderate means. Yet the state Council on Affordable Housing, under the state Fair…   read entire article»

Affordable-home deals a Middletown specialty Wednesday, Sep 19, 2007
Since 1988, state officials have allowed Monmouth County’s largest municipality to transfer more than $12.1 million the most statewide to its neighbors to avoid building 649 affordable housing units within its boundaries. Middletown, accor…   read entire article»

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Governor Jon Corzine promised when he was running for office that he was committed to the Homes for New Jersey goal of 100,000 new affordable housing units.

In today’s Star-Ledger’s article entitled “Corzine: Cost could hinder affordable housing effort” the following two paragraphs sum up his current position.

“Nearly halfway into his term, the Democratic governor has yet to deliver a housing plan, conceding the potential price tag — about $300 million over 10 years — is a big roadblock during tough budget times.

We’re in the midst of responding to the legal challenges associated with our housing policy … and we are reworking a number of incentives, trying to find ways to get additional resources and stimulate the plan on the table,” the governor said Friday. “Unfortunately, I don’t know if we would be able to afford it.”

The question should not be can we afford it but can we afford to continue to do nothing. With the deteriorating economy and the recent Census data from the American Community Survey, New Jersey is in a major affordability crisis.

According to the American Community Survey, “The median monthly housing costs for mortgaged owners was $2,130, nonmortgaged owners $787, and renters $974. Forty-five percent of owners with mortgages, 28 percent of owners without mortgages, and 50 percent of renters in New Jersey spent 30 percent or more of household income on housing.”

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