{"id":3469,"date":"2025-06-30T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:33:48","slug":"university-and-partners-break-ground-on-paterson-housing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/2025\/06\/30\/university-and-partners-break-ground-on-paterson-housing-project\/","title":{"rendered":"University and Partners Break Ground on Paterson Housing Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phase 2 of One Square Mile initiative commences with Passaic County Habitat for Humanity partnership<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2025\/06\/image-1-1024x535.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Community and philanthropic partners joined elected officials and Montclair State University on June 4 for a special groundbreaking ceremony for a new home to begin addressing housing inequities in Paterson, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The project is the first initiative in Phase 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/one-square-mile\/\">One Square Mile<\/a> (OSM), the hyperlocal, place-based initiative supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grdodge.org\/\">Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation<\/a> designed to revitalize a designated area of Paterson that began in February 2023. Phase 2 will focus on creating housing solutions for Paterson residents in the first, fourth and fifth wards of the city over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Through the partnership, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.habitatpc.org\/\">Passaic County Habitat for Humanity<\/a> will construct its 300th new home in the city of Paterson, a 3-bedroom, 2 bathroom home, which will be located at 45 Auburn Street. Other partners on the project include ADP and the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2025\/06\/06\/university-and-partners-break-ground-on-paterson-housing-project\/\">View full story here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phase 2 of One Square Mile initiative commences with Passaic County Habitat for Humanity partnership Community and philanthropic partners joined elected officials and Montclair State University on June 4 for a special groundbreaking ceremony for a new home to begin addressing housing inequities in Paterson, New Jersey. The project is the first initiative in Phase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-of-community-engagement-and-partnerships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}