Families could wait for decades to get affordable housing in Newark | Opinion
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Posted Mar 03, 2021
In a new study, David Dante Troutt, director of the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME), says 60% of Newark s residents spend one-third of their income on housing and almost one-third of residents spend at least half of their incomes on rent. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media) Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Adva
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By David Dante Troutt
If Newark was to meet its residents’ current need for affordable housing at least 16,000 units it would take over 20 years and still fail to reach hundreds of households. Yet by that time, another generation of very low-income families would show all the symptoms of deep economic scarring laid bare by the pandemic chronic housing instability and displacement, school absenteeism, increased exposure to trauma, poverty-level wages and, as the city’s 2,300 COVID-19 deaths c