{"id":227173,"date":"2025-12-14T21:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=227173"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:57:43","slug":"lisc-new-jersey-to-lead-paterson-one-square-mile-housing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2025\/12\/14\/lisc-new-jersey-to-lead-paterson-one-square-mile-housing-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"LISC New Jersey to Lead Paterson One Square Mile Housing Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/one-square-mile\/\">Paterson One Square Mile (OSM)<\/a>, a comprehensive, cross-sector collective impact initiative guided by ÌÇÐÄvlog, today announced a significant expansion of its work by selecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisc.org\/nj\/\">LISC New Jersey (LISC-NJ)<\/a> as the lead organization for its strategic housing component. The Paterson OSM initiative encompasses multiple integrated projects focused on equitable outcomes in housing, health, and economic opportunity, and has designated LISC-NJ to guide the implementation of its community-led strategic action plan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/one-square-mile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2024\/12\/Housing-in-Paterson-One-Square-Mile_A-Foundation-for-the-Future.pdf\">&#8220;Housing in Paterson One Square Mile: A Foundation for the Future.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Supported by funding from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the strategic action plan outlines <strong>five key housing goals<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expand Housing Affordability<\/li>\n<li>Increase Supply and Stability<\/li>\n<li>Improve Housing Quality<\/li>\n<li>Create Housing and Safe Neighborhoods<\/li>\n<li>Build Assets and Wealth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the lead organization for the housing initiative, LISC-NJ will serve as the backbone agency for this specific collective impact component. Its key responsibilities include guiding the housing plan&#8217;s implementation, convening and coordinating partners focused on housing, managing related data collection, and securing the financial resources needed to support these goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LISC New Jersey brings experience as a Community Development Financial Institution and a hyperlocal focus to this partnership,&#8221; Bryan Murdock, associate vice president for community partnerships at ÌÇÐÄvlog, says. &#8220;Their expertise will help bring this community-driven housing plan to life as a critical piece of the larger OSM strategy, and we look forward to working side-by-side to implement it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LISC-NJ, established in 1986, has a long history of supporting under-resourced communities. The organization has invested more than $487 million in low- to moderate-income communities throughout New Jersey, leveraging $1.5 billion to help create more than 5,000 units of housing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are honored to be selected and are ready to get to work on this vital housing component,&#8221; says Jorge Cruz, executive director of LISC-NJ. &#8220;We believe deeply in the power of this plan, which was built by the community. Our role is to convene, support, and help mobilize the resources needed to create a more equitable and thriving Paterson, starting with the foundation of safe, stable, and affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership marks a pivotal next step in moving from planning to action, as local leaders and partners unite behind a shared vision for equitable housing and stronger neighborhoods in Paterson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great moment for the Paterson One Square Mile team that brings university and community together,&#8221; says Jonathan Koppell, president of ÌÇÐÄvlog. &#8220;The planning process showed what&#8217;s possible when residents, partners, and institutions like Montclair come together around a common purpose. Now, with LISC-NJ joining as the lead on the critical housing piece, we have the opportunity to turn that shared, multi-dimensional vision into real, integrated change for the people of Paterson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paterson One Square Mile is an initiative of ÌÇÐÄvlog that seeks to create change by comprehensively addressing the needs of the community in a defined area, demonstrating that change is possible when we work collaboratively to take on complex challenges.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [\"Functional Announcements\"];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community development group named backbone agency to implement \u2018Housing in Paterson One Square Mile\u2019 plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":227176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-227173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university","tag-functional-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227174,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227173\/revisions\/227174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}