Research Guides: The Newark Experience: Housing From the 1960s to the Present

Newark Dept. of Economic & Housing Development

Who Owns Newark?
"This report shows that the national trend in investor buying of 1-4 unit homes in predominantly Black neighborhoods is most acute in Newark, New Jersey where almost half of all real estate sales were made by institutional buyers. The trend grew out of the foreclosure crisis that wiped out significant middle-class wealth in particular Newark neighborhoods." May 2, 2022

The Starting Point: Structuring Newark's Land Use Laws at the Outset of Redevelopment to Promote Integration Without Displacement: Malina Welman. Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 53(1), October 2019, pp. 43-87. "In 2017, New Jersey's largest municipality, Newark, made history when its city council passed an inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring, in part, that at least twenty percent of new residential projects be set aside for moderate- and low-income households."

Towers of Frustration [Videorecording].: "Focuses on the Stella Wright housing project in Newark, N.J. Explores the problems confronting residents in many of the country's large, impersonal and crime-ridden public housing projects." Available?