11/03/2023
Many thanks to all who helped celebrate the ground breaking ceremony yesterday!
Some days are more meaningful than others.
Today I celebrated nearly 4 years (since being elected in November, 2019!) of hard work to get us over $4M in funding for a first of its kind, small-scale, achievable housing development in the ❤️ of our historic Downtown Haddonfield, and move forward with a development that languished for over 15 years: finally, groundbreaking on Snowden!
I say “achievable,” not “affordable,” because if you grew up in a household like mine, you understand that striving to raise your family in a beautiful, safe community with excellent schools is not just about affordability. It’s about hard work, dignity, and dedication; it’s about providing that “missing middle” housing stock that evades many hard-working people & families, now more than ever. It represents a vision for inclusion, equality, and equity that decades of deliberately complex and discriminatory policies & laws prevented from becoming our reality - not just here in Haddonfield, but all over this state, and across our country.
Thank you to everyone who worked with me - and challenged me - to make this possible, make it better, and make it what it will become for 20 individuals and/or families: HOME.
Special thanks to Commissioner Kevin Roche, who spent the last two years digging in and doing the work (aka: the math!) to contribute to our scattered site approach, which creates additional housing opportunities.
Borough of Haddonfield
Fair Share Housing Center
Community Investment Strategies - CIS Communities