Housing and Urban Development secretary announcing $9.7 million grant for Jersey City public housing

By Melissa Hayes/The Jersey Journal
June 02, 2010, 10:16AM

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy will join U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan in announcing a $9.7 million grant for public housing in Jersey City today.

Federal Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan will visit A. Harry Moore Public Housing Development in Jersey City today to announce $9.7 million for the project.

The Jersey City Housing Authority is receiving the funds through HUD?s 2009 HOPE VI Revitalization program.
Jersey City and Trenton are among six municipalities in the country to receive these funds.

Donovan is in Trenton this morning at Miller Homes announcing a grant there.

He will be at the Jersey City site on Duncan Avenue this afternoon. Senators Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg and U.S. Rep. Albio Sires as well as Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy and representatives from the housing authority will be on hand.

The HOPE IV Program aims to revitalize severely distressed public housing.

In a press release Healy said the A. Harry Moore Public Housing complex will become a mixed-income community that will help residents become self-sufficient.

?We can?t thank President Obama and Secretary Donovan enough for this funding, which will ensure that the distressed housing at A. Harry Moore becomes yet another project that Jersey City can be proud of,? Healy said in the release announcing today?s event.