Jersey City broke ground on Canal Crossing, a redevelopment in Bergen-Lafayette whose first phase will bring 508 homes to the neighborhood, including 102 affordable units with rents below $1,000 and $1,500 a month.
That makes about one in five homes in the first phase affordable. The project will include family-sized apartments with three bedrooms and is expected to be built with union labor on a former brownfield, a polluted industrial site that has to be cleaned up before it can be reused.
“Every Jersey City resident deserves the opportunity to find a home they can afford and build a future in the city they love,” Mayor James Solomon said at the groundbreaking. The project is part of his Building for Working Families housing initiative…