The HudsonReporter informs MHProNews, following a lengthy process of having chromium- contaminated land cleaned up in Jersey City, New Jersey, a consortium of non-profits and for profits witnessed the arrival of 22 modular townhomes that will be known as Jackson Green on Rose Avenue, in the Martin Luther King Drive Redevelopment Area. In the 1980’s the Interfaith Community Organization (ICO) began pushing to clean up the land with the ultimate goal of increasing the stock of affordable housing in Hudson County. The collaboration of ICO, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA), The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), Honeywell, HUD, and New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency’s CHOICE Program resulted in the $7 million project of Energy Star certified dwellings. The modular homes will be offered to those earning 80 to 120 percent of the area median income, about $40,000 to $50,000 for a family of four, and should be finished by the summer. Prices on the three-story, three-bedroom homes will start at $112,000.
