Last week, at a star-studded press event featuring Bon Jovi, New Jersey Governor Corzine, and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the creation of the Newark HELP Initiative was announced. This is a public-private partnering of Bon Jovi's Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation and HELP USA in order to develop the Newark Genesis Apartments in the North Ward.
The Newark Genesis Apartments are 51 affordable housing units with support for services for low-income and special-needs persons. Additionally, 25 percent of the units have been set aside for those living with AIDS.
But on top of this project's excellent social amenities, it is also eco-friendly, featuring a geothermal heating system as well as other components from New Jersey's Green Future program.
This is where the interests of those from all ends of the economic spectrum start to benefit from the green economy. To name them, there are the private interests that certainly profit from building both green and affordable living spaces, there is the municipality that finds benefit from the ability to help those in need, there is the environment that's helped by the new environmentally sound building practices, and the final and most important benefit is to those who might once have thought that living in a green world was simply out of reach.
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