Southside View

Southside View transforms a previously underutilized site in the City of Newark’s South Ward into a 100 percent affordable housing community, with 6, one-bedroom; 24, two-bedroom, and 10-three-bedroom apartments.

The five-story building, located at 654 South 11th Street, features four floors of residential housing over ground-floor parking, on-site building management, mail room, and community space. The project is distinctive in its holistic approach to affordable living and numerous amenities that provide multifaceted resident support.  Every apartment in Southside View will have free Wi-Fi for 15 years. Children living in the building will receive free laptops for school and will have access to free after-school tutoring, offered five days a week. Adults will have access to a computer lab where they can learn basic technology skills.  Each apartment includes a washer and dryer, and apartments designated for the homeless are fully furnished.

Southside View’s development team is the first woman-owned and Black-owned real estate development entity in New Jersey to receive 9 percent LIHTC funding from the NJHFMA. The project represents progress not just in the number of units of affordable multifamily housing that will be available for Newark residents, but in the precedent that the project sets for other underrepresented development teams to seek state-level financing to make community revitalization projects across the state a reality.

Southside View, and its companion project, Springview, located a block away, directly address the statewide shortage of housing for families of low to moderate incomes by bringing a combined total of 103 new housing units to Newark. The creation of this development also contributes to the preservation of  income diversity and the availability of affordable housing in Newark’s South Ward as gentrification pressures increase and rents outpace incomes for many longtime residents of the Kent-Brenner-Springfield Redevelopment Area.