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May 6, 2021 at 4:53 PM
NEWARK, NJ Less than a quarter of Newark residents are fully vaccinated, however, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge said the Biden-Harris administration is determined to raise those numbers.
Joined by local health professionals and area officials, Fudge visited Wynona Lipman Gardens on Thursday to attend a mobile pop-up clinic hosted by Saint James Health. Aimed to increase accessibility to the city’s most underserved communities, pop-up clinics have been one of the city’s most consistent methods to provide access rather than relying on larger vaccination sites.
As of May 6, more than 100 million U.S. citizens have been fully vaccinated, but the numbers in so many underserved communities throughout the country like Newark tell a different story. In a city where roughly 22% of its residents are fully vaccinated, the HUD secretary, a Cleveland native, stressed that the Biden-Harris administration needs to do mo
Federal Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge lauded New Jersey s efforts to vaccinate hard-to-reach populations, touted President Joe Biden s jobs proposal and attended the groundbreaking of a Hoboken infrastructure project meant to prevent storm damage after Superstorm Sandy during her first official visit to the state as HUD secretary Thursday. This is really, really inspiring for me, Fudge said, standing in front of Wynona Lipman Gardens, brick town houses managed by the Newark Housing Authority. Every Thursday, the community health center Saint James Health offers a pop-up center at the public housing town houses for vaccines, testing and food to those who preregister and to walk-ins.
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Andrew Austin didn’t have a lawyer when he logged onto Zoom in civil court this November, but the Newark Housing Authority did.
“The judge didn’t listen to anything I had to say,” Austin said. “She gave me two weeks to get out of there or the sheriff’s department was going to come.”
He and his girlfriend left the Wynona Lipman Gardens townhome in Newark when Superior Court Judge Lisa Adubato in November handed down the ejectment order, a legally different term and process than an eviction.