They your unit if not subject to rent control ordinances, as the price is not tenant dependent. If you're unsure, you can reach out to your municipality and ask them.

Those letters come directly from rent control offices listing the months and overpayment. Do you know how old the apartment is, how many units are on the property and of the owner lives there?

Because private group homes are outrageously expensive and state group mental hospitals got carried away with the icepick lobotomies and shocking the shit out of patients, so there's some earned mistrust there.

Sequins for everyone!

But then a person who appears unhoused might sit for 5 minutes scare off would be gentrifiers.

The best thing to do, is to email them (leasing@addisontowers.com or office@addisontowers.com) The leasing manager was Lindha, I of course don't know if she is still there. If you have steady employment with income 3x rent, you should be fine depending on the availability. They have around 220 total units, so there's a constant rotation, you just have to be the positive, but squeaky wheel.

I've been in all of thems several times while working for the census bureau 2018-2019. Something to remember is that the management changes every few years.

Pavilion has the obvious location benefit to broad st. Their security is okay. At the time their management was "ok". Windows can't open fully so if the AC goes out, you're kind of screwed.

Collonade is legally split into two addresses but they are the same. The management was always very nice to me, but the apartment hallways were absolutely nothing like the lobby. Security was so-so. Same AC situation.

The Addison is okay with a grocery store, pharmacy nearby and it's close'ish to Branch Brook park. There's a bus stop right outside. Management changed three times during my stay. The property was owned by the same company from it's construction until around 2008? Since then it's been sold several times, each time making it more profitable by reducing staff. Security is essentially non existent, and I totally believe they are acting their wage. Tenants tend to vacuum the hallways, but the space you get it great. Also, they have normal windows so you can put window ACs in, if needed. They also have balconies in all 1bd and larger. Management is mid, but if you're nice to them, they do their best to work with you. But they are limited by what the owners setup (a NYC corporation). If you have specified questions about Addison, let me know.

I lived there for a while, stay in the white tower, the super Jayson lives there. Parking is not ideal, but you get a ton of space for the money.

Absolutely, love trolleys and light rails! They are quieter and more predictable too!

It's a good idea for cities on a large uncomplicated grid. Also, I've seen our bus drivers side swipe cars and never stop. I trust a surface level rail more haha.

I mean, they built hallways in the sky so commuters didn't have to interact with the locals.

As much of a pipe dream that it is, it would be phenomenal.

I have never lived in the Ironbound. I've only lived in the North Ward, exactly where I've said I wanted more development. If you bothered to read what I typed, you'd know that. Everything you typed is therefore moot.

I also never claimed to be a statistician. I have an mpa and have worked at a NPO downtown for years. Keep beating the shit out of those straw men though 🤣🤣🤣. I hope you win.

I'm not hiding behind jargon lol. They stated there was a 20% requirement and I showed waivers are issued so not even half that number are always required. You're lack of understanding when Google is at your fingertips is not cause for me to break everything down to a Crayola level of understanding. I do that for the younger Newarkers, but I won't spend the energy for keyboard warriors without the motivation to gain the knowledge that's freely available.

There has been a lot of developing in the Ironbound and almost none in the North Ward, even though several houses continue to add blight and at least one has been vacant for nearly a decade. Plenty of space on their larger lots with access to public amenities. And the idea that I'm playing some NIMBY role is preposterous. I don't see a benefit to catering to upper middle class transplants who only want to use our comparably cheaper housing while they expect the sanitizing of their surroundings. New shiny buildings ≠ progress.

You're attempting you bring race into a conversation when my main motivating factor is to provide housing for those who are already here. I believe it is more important than trying to accommodate new residents in address-only.

I've actually gone to city meetings over the years with tenants united to fight for protections for current residents of Newark. If you had, you'd have known all I've said is accurate. Let alone my time in 2017-2019 with the Census Bureau walking nearly every street and talking to people all over this amazing city about how they live their lives. The obsession with wanting to be the next Jersey City, current residents be damned is tiring.

Is this a r/confidentlyincorrect submission on purpose?

>This is funny…

>You argument is essentially “we were here first and we don’t want people who are not like us to move in next door…”

>Based on this bigotry, the family who arrived here 6 months ago and is over staying their visa is an “integral” part of the community but a hipster who takes out student loans to go to collage and lands an 80k/ yr job in the city is not. 🤣😂 we are truly living in a clown world.

I said the exact opposite.

>As for subsidies, the tax abatements are essentially housing subsidies. They are given to developers who in return are compelled by law to offer “affordable” housing. Show me a residential development that received the tax abatement that is not also forced to set aside 20% of their units to the affordable housing mandate?

You're apparently unaware of the rubber-stamping of waivers for this requirement. As for the example, here's one a 4 second Google provided. This one was approved in 2021 with fewer than 10%. https://www.marejournal.com/post/newark-municipal-council-grants-tax-exemption-to-vibe-slated-to-rise-in-redevelopment-area

>If the Northside is the paradise you claim it to be, why don’t you move there?🤣🤣🤣 You don’t want to be told where to live but you want to tell other people where they should and should not live 🤔.

Again, I was implying that a NIMBY mentality was being used in the least dense area in the city. And I did live there for 8 years.

Ah, that almost makes sense then

Perfect example.

They would likely use the Gateway walkway, that would be appropriate for the population being considered here ha.

This. People who have been priced out of Brooklyn, JC, and Hoboken will love it. And they'll never cross McCarter hwy. If they knock down existing housing occupied in the last x years, they should have to make 50% of the units "affordable" and not market rate

The city needs more housing. Most cities need more housing. If it's not a historical society fighting it, it is the local residents fighting it. The Ironbound had regulations designed to preserve it's unique (to the city) asthetic. There needs to be a balance between the investors frothing for profits and the residents who will see their community leveled and then be asked to compensate for the additional financial strain via their property taxes increasing due to incentives handed to those frothing investors.

I've wondered (not really) why developers don't look to the north ward where several old giant homes are increasingly deteriorating. The park is right there, multiple light rail stops, a full grocery store is right on Mt Prospect so in a drug store. But we wouldn't want to upset those neighbors, so let's go after where the actual culture of the city is.

>Baraka has “admitted” that development will raise taxes for homeowners; exactly how , no one apparently knows. The article is predictably thin on facts and thick with innuendo and fear mongering.

Likely the same reason I've mentioned in this sub before. It's common for high density construction to be handed a multi decade property tax abatements on the "improvement"(actual building). This would be a smaller example, but as more towers are constructed, more tax revenue will be needed. Since they don't get the funds from the new construction, they have to increase it from those properties that do pay. That's not fear mongering without substance.

>The argument that change will “ destroy the neighborhood” is exactly the type of arguments racist segregationist used to justify restrictive covenants to stop blacks from moving into the suburbs. Now the reverse is true; what a clown world we live in.

The term you're searching for in this instance is gentrification.

>Building is 2 blocks from Penn station, how is increasing density so close to transit a bad thing. This building is not unique. There are millions of such units spreed across cities in the eastern seaboard. This design was essentially the Bayonne box of the 1900’s. The city needs more housing, revenues , businesses and jobs. How do we do this without creating more housing stock?

Presently, there is still a large portion of the Ironbound that recent immigrated here. They work and live their lives in the area. Developers have eyed Newark for some time now as the next stop for people who have been priced out of JC and Hoboken and Newark politicians have been happy to issue tax abatements and affordable units waivers to accommodate them.

If they want to knock down existing occupied housing, they should have to double the number of affordable housing units included. This would encourage locals to be residents instead of New Yorkers looking for cheaper housing near a train station.

“The Ironbound is being destroyed,” said Lisa Scorsolini, a neighborhood resident since 2004.

The residents have been fighting to maintain the ironbound and prevent the ironbound from turning into the next SodaSopa in the name of progress.

The city has been trying to bulldoze the old row houses for years. They aren't even dilapidated like some buildings other recent development projects would demolish. Developers see a pending hipster paradise and want to capitalize on the proximity to Penn station. So people can live "in the Ironbound" and work in Manhattan while never crossing McCarter.

The way he has repeatedly screwed over economically depressed long time residents by not fighting waivers for affordable units in new construction. The way he did little to ease the concerns of well meaning people who fed the homeless at Penn station. The way he turned a blind eye to the homeless encampment behind the previously vacant baseball lot as they removed them.

He hurt himself. The man has done things to make out of state developers happy.

Private landlords are typically not subject to rent control ordinances in NJ. There is a minimum number of 4 units and to be over 30years old to be subject to Newark's.

There may be tax reasons for buying those vehicles overly 5k lbs. Not defending them, as I firmly believe they shouldn't have them.

>Not exactly the same thing, but the exemption from rent control for new residential construction for 35 years is part of the law here.

Right. In 2014, 2015 and 2017 I went to a bunch of city meetings with Newark tenants united and my local tenants organization to fight for protections. I was part of the group pushing (successfully) for building owners to have to refund illegally increased rents. I was a thorn in Maria Hernandez's side for quite some time. She was rubber stamping rent increases for many years, my only failure was not pushing hard enough for an ethics investigation.

But the affordable housing requirement for new construction is different, as you suggested. My gripe is when they are handed both a waiver for the affordable units % and those 20+ year abatements.

I know some younger redditors are irritated by my sometimes overly-curt responses. To be fair, I should really use more kind words when addressing them. I'm sure I just sound condescending.

They are mostly from Newark and they are established philanthropists who have likely been giving back longer than you've been alive. I know Del Tufo has spent decades trying to save historic buildings.

As for this particular situation? I have no idea.

>In my own endeavors, I'm close with several of the city council members, so I'm wondering if I might need to intervene so that the next development doesn't get shot down.

Maybe you could ask them why they need government cars?

Maybe you could ask them why they continue to grant affordable housing waivers for new construction?

Maybe you could ask them why they keep giving multi decade tax abatements to out of state developers?

Unsolicited advice: If you're allowing an inanimate object that at-best would be 4 years from completion to upset you, consider your reasons for that.