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One Woodland Ave.
Montclair, NJ 07042
Phone: 973-744-4141
Fax: 973-744-5333
HOMECorp Events
HOMECorp Community Garden Bringing Montclair Together
Montclair, July 2010 — Members of the Montclair community have gathered this spring and summer to cultivate the spirit of neighborhood and diversity by growing food in the HOMECorp Community Garden located on Miller Street. The garden, which is coordinated by volunteer and Glen Ridge resident Tim DeLorm, is poised to be a space of creative collaboration among various individuals and organizations. Doreen Neil Harris is the HOMECorp tenant garden coordinator who oversees tenant participation in the project. For $20 a plot, volunteers are encouraged to plant the vegetation of their choice and receive the benefit of growing a beautiful garden.
The garden is available to community members of all ages and is accessible to volunteers with physical disabilities. Over the course of the gardening season there are opportunities for planting and maintenance responsibilities. The garden practices sustainable and organic gardening methods, teaches about gardening to new gardeners of all ages, and provides a space for residents to grow food. There is composting, and recycling on site. The space is open to all residents to participate so an organized system of sharing space and crops is in place.
This past spring, volunteers for the garden included The Civics and Government Insitute from Montclair High School, Temple Ner Tamid, Toni’s Kitchen, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, First United Methodist Church of Montclair, and YMCA Teen Traveling Camp.
Sponsors for the garden include: Mountainside Health Foundation, Red Star Paint and Decoration Center, Zaentz Hardware, O’Boyle Landscaping, Wallwood Garden, Kitchen and Bath Design Gallery, and Corbin Construction.
HOMECorp welcomes any interested supporters to contact us for our complete list of items that are needed to continue to keep this shared gardening space accessible, dynamic, and beautiful. For more information, please contact the HOMECorp office at (973) 744-4141.
Our garden is generating quite a bit of press! You can read about us on:
For more information about sustainable and eco-friendly gardening and landscaping you can visit www.greenharmmonynow.com
S1 Bill Pending in State Senate
S-1 is a pending NJ Senate bill which proposes to replace Council on Affordable Housing (COAH), the NJ state agency charged with monitoring the development and preservation of housing choices. The affordable housing community is largely against S-1 as it appears to severely restrict future housing development for low and moderate income households.
Read on for more information presented by the affordable housing community.
Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment · Corporation for Supportive Housing · Fair Share Housing Center · 8 Habitat for Humanity Chapters · Housing and Community Development Network of NJ · Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministry · NAACP New Jersey State Conference · New Jersey Regional Coalition · Supportive Housing Association
COAH SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH
AN EFFECTIVE SYSTEM THAT PRODUCES
HOMES NEAR JOBS AND TRANSIT
June 15, 2010 - Trenton, New Jersey- A wide range of civil rights, environmental, housing, religious, and supportive housing and special needs groups called on the Legislature to replace COAH with a strategy that will actually produce more homes near jobs and transit, instead of adopting the deeply flawed S-1.
The groups laid out the following policies:
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Produce more homes than COAH - not fewer like S-1. COAH has produced over 40,000 homes since 1986. That is not enough to meet the state's housing needs. Our plan would have produced more than double what COAH has produced. S-1 would have produced far fewer homes - about one-eighth of what COAH produced - especially because S-1 allows a $10,000 payment instead of building housing.
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A more transparent and simpler process - not a new COAH under a different name. Basic rules should be established by legislative change and enforced. S-1 encourages towns to go through a process of submitting paper plans to be reviewed by DCA - similar to today's COAH process under a different name.
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Homes in the right places. S-1 would encourage sprawl development and discourage reuse and infill development, by making rural municipalities the most susceptible to builders' proposals. Instead, the proposal unveiled today would limit development in environmentally sensitive areas while encouraging reuse of existing developed land.
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Recognize towns that are already diverse. S-1 requires towns that are already racially and economically diverse, like Pennsauken and South Orange, to do more. We propose that towns should be "inclusionary" based on their existing affordability - not based on arbitrary criteria.
Visit our website, www.hcdnnj.org for a more detailed comparison chart between S-1 and our proposal.
Kelly Francis of the NAACP New Jersey State Conference and Camden County NAACP stated "We need to move forward in replacing COAH - not backward with S-1, which would be a de facto Jim Crow law."
Jeff Tittel, Sierra Club director, said that "We need a replacement for COAH that encourages new development in New Jersey through reusing shopping centers and office parks. S-1 puts a bulls eye on rural and environmentally sensitive areas like the Highlands and Pinelands."
David Zurheide, Executive Director of Newark Habitat for Humanity, said "Any replacement for COAH should make it easier for groups like Habitat for Humanity to build - S-1 makes it harder."
Press Conference, 6/15/2010
Speakers' Contact Information
David Zurheide, Habitat for Humanity, Newark Chapter, 973-624-3330 ext. 302
Kelly Francis, NAACP New Jersey State Conference and President, Camden County Branch NAACP, (609) 980-3692
Jeff Tittel, Sierra Club, NJ Chapter, (609) 558-9100
Allison Recca-Ryan, Corporation for Supportive Housing, (609) 392-7820
Brad Kennedy, Supportive Housing Association, (908) 879-2243
Judy Remington, Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment, (609) 456-1444
Nicole Plett, New Jersey Regional Coalition, (609) 915-8759
Dianne Brake, PlanSmart NJ, (609)393-9434
HomeCorp Awarded Two Grants
HOMECorp was recently awarded 2 grants: $5,000 from Montclair Fund for Women and
$5,000
from The Montclair Foundation. Grant proceeds will support HC housing counseling programs and initiatives. HC is extremely grateful to both organizations for their continued
support of housing choices for everyone.
Make Your Voice Heard!
The Christie Administration is threatening to cut funding for affordable housing production.
Voice your objection by forwarding the completed postcards to your elected officials.
Click Here for Postcards
It's time for the 2010 US Census.
Click the link below for more information, to learn why it's
important to be counted,
and about scams for you to avoid.
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Washington Street Property Purchased
On May 28, 2010, HOMECorp acquired 4 Washington Street, Montclair. The Washington Street property is a 9-unit apartment building located on the same block of the new Charles Bullock School. The building consists of all one-bedroom units and is rented to low, moderate and middle income residents. Three of the units will be reserved for Montclair residents. HOMECorp is currently marketing 3 units at $800 per month plus utilities (electric heat). Acquisition financing was provided by New Jersey Community Capital and private equity.
For more information, contact homecorp@verizon.net
HOMECorp Fights
HOMECorp is actively fighting against the impact of foreclosures in Montclair
through application of Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 funds.
For more information read the article below.
Neighborhood Stabilization Program
Community
Hall of Fame
Thirteen/WLIW 21
WNET New York
http://www.thirteen.org/about/announcements/community-hall-of-fame-2008
First Time Homebuyer Seminars
2010 seminars to be announced,
Contact Us:
HOMECorp
One Woodland Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07042
973-744-4141 or 973-744-5333-fax
homecorp@verizon.net