Neighborhood Stabilization Program-Time Waits for No Man
While there is little doubt that foreclosures are devastating our communities across the our country, many organizations seem paralyzed waiting for "stimulus" dollars and the like to become available. It seems that because of the time and effort that we all have been spending chasing NSP dollars, funds that are critical to being able to really make a substantive difference in our communities, the DOLLARS are not NSP, they are fuel for make NSP happen faster.
While we wait, are neighborhoods continue to deteriorate. While out on a street in Clinton Hill in Newark a few weeks ago, I had the honor to meet a resident who has lived in his well kept home since 1953, over 55 years. This was a man who served his country in WWII, the holder of a Bronze Star having participated in the invasions of Guadalcanal and the Philippines in the Pacific Theater. He spent decades as a contractor and brick layer in the City of Newark. Still proud of the brick porch he had built leading to HIS porch. Does this man not deserve to live out his days in in dignity a neighborhood free of blight and the crime that it brings with it.
We have taken to heart the distress in the neighborhood we serve and are no longer willing to sit idly by waiting for other as peoples lives are marginalized. As of this writing we have begun work one one of the foreclosed abandoned homes we own and will have renovations on two more underway by the end of this week.
I'll keep you updated on the progress of these homes.
Coming soon!!!
Foreclosure Task Force-Events,Mediation, Walk Arounds