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UPDATE: Newark Tenants' Rights Workshop To Be Rescheduled UPDATE: Newark Tenants' Rights Workshop To Be Rescheduled
Update: Newark Tenants' Rights Workshop To Be Rescheduled UPDATE, Nov. 5: The workshop will not be held Thursday. A new date will be announced within the next week.  Original story is below:  The Ironbound Community Corp. is hosting a workshop to educate tenants about their legal rights regarding eviction, rent increases and more.  The workshop, which will be led by attorneys, will be held Thursday at 1 New York Ave., Newark, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.  Attendees are encouraged to invite friends, family and anyone else who may benefit from the workshop.  For more information or for questions, call 973-465-0555, ext. 200. …

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Newark Seeks To Keep Housing Affordable, Contain Gentrification Newark Seeks To Keep Housing Affordable, Contain Gentrification
Newark Seeks To Keep Housing Affordable, Contain Gentrification For decades Newark has been struggling to rebuild since the violent racial disturbances of the late 1960s left swaths of the city devastated and fueled white flight to the suburbs. Now that those efforts are beginning to pay off, the city faces another growing challenge: gentrification. Rents in at least some parts of the city, which had been rising steadily for years, have now begun to soar out of range for many longtime residents. The administration of Mayor Ras Baraka has formed an 11-member commission of experts and stakeholders to “ensure that development policies and projects in New…

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by Paul Milo