GALLERY: Stanley Holmes Village in Atlantic City
Stanley Holmes Village is set to undergo a massive redevelopment. The Atlantic City Housing Authority is set to spend more than $200 million to either replace or redevelop the housing development. 1 of 29
Maria Baez has lived at Stanley Holmes Village in Atlantic City for seven years and likes living there. Itâs been good, she said Friday. The neighbors are pleasant. You make it your own place where you live. VERNON OGRODNEK / For The Press
The 420-unit Stanley Holmes Village, built in 1937 and expanded in 1951, is the oldest public housing complex in New Jersey.
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“Sometimes I wish I could move to another state where there’s no water around,” she said.
The water is a constant, creeping threat in Atlantic City, where the sea level rise has caused an increase in sunny day flooding. These days, it only takes a particularly high tide, which reaches more than a foot higher than it did a century ago, for water to spill onto the city’s streets.
As many as 1,640 affordable housing units in New Jersey are vulnerable to coastal flooding at least once per year, according to an analysis led by scientists at Climate Central, a Princeton-based non-advocacy research and news group.