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The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday announced that Jersey City will receive a Planning Grant to study how best to transform the Montgomery Gardens-McGinley Square corridor into a mixed-income neighborhood. The $250,000 grant falls under HUD’s new Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, an extension of the HOPE VI program that has transformed [...]

The Jersey City Housing Authority’s (JCHA) Barbara Place Terrace has won a 2010 Award of Excellence from the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. The mixed-income development will be honored in the Project Design category at the group’s national conference next week. The project is one of 23 nationwide to receive an award this [...]

- Montgomery Gardens’ Future: Jersey City Housing Authority executive director Maria Maio confirmed yesterday that Montgomery Gardens is the next Jersey City public housing project to get the HOPE VI treatment, with most of the 434-unit high-rise complex slated to be leveled and will be replaced by a seniors building and 60 to 90 other [...]

Officials gathered today at the A. Harry Moore public housing development on Jersey City’s West Side to herald the $9.7 million HOPE VI grant.

The Jersey City Housing Authority (JCHA) and Healy administration officials will unveil the latest part of the long-term redevelopment of the Lafayette Gardens/Morris Canal area Tuesday, May 25. The apartment buildings, known as Ocean Pointe, are located at 461 Ocean Ave. and include 59 affordable units set aside for senior citizens and over 5,000 square [...]

The statewide smart growth group New Jersey Future today announced that the transformation of a Jersey City public housing project under the federal HOPE VI program has won a 2010 Smart Growth Award for Creative Neighborhood Affordable Housing. The development, which demolished the original 492-unit Lafayette Gardens public housing project and has replaced it with [...]

The new Ocean Pointe senior apartment community at 460 Ocean Ave. is accepting applications for 58 affordable units starting today. First preference for the units will be given to former senior residents of Lafayette Gardens who were forced out because of HOPE VI renovations to the housing complex, with second preference given to seniors who [...]

- Hudson County’s unemployment rate has skyrocketed in the last two years, from 5 percent in September 2007 to 6.7 percent one year later to 11.6 percent in September 2009. It is now higher than both the state and national averages. Jersey City’s 12 percent unemployment rate is not the highest in the county; that [...]

- Despite the fact that he has been indicted, state Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone, who represents Bayonne and part of Jersey City in the 31st District, says he expects to be re-elected to a new term on Tuesday. And chances are he will, as he’s running on the Hudson County Democratic Organization ticket. (Jersey Journal story [...]