More than 1,600 Newark families living in public housing are getting affordable high-speed internet access as part of an outgrowth of the city’s celebrated Newark Fiber program.
Construction is underway on a project that will bring dozens of age-restricted affordable housing units to Newark, the first piece of a multiphase plan in the city’s East Ward.
Newark city officials on Thursday took a key step toward redeveloping a historic but blighted public housing complex, where plans call for a new mixed-income residential complex and potential commercial uses such as business incubators, film studios and research space.
Newark city officials have set out to create or preserve 6,600 units of affordable housing over the next five years, part of a new plan aimed at helping lower-income and homeless residents.
The federal government has awarded more than $24 million to the city of Newark to fund a series of major capital improvements to public housing properties.
