In one of America’s most expensive housing markets, more than 10 acres of publicly owned land in the heart of Jersey City are currently devoted to surface parking lots.
At a time when housing costs are forcing working families out of the communities they helped build, we should be asking a simple question: Is that really the best use of scarce public land?
Hudson County Executive Craig Guy has put forward a bold alternative. The Hudson County Affordable Housing Initiative would transform underutilized county-owned land into more than 1,500 new homes across four sites in Jersey City, including hundreds of permanently affordable homes for working families…