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Queen Latifah has broke ground on land to build affordable housing for Newark residents.

April 27, 2022 It took a while, but we stayed with it and it changed and it morphed, and we stayed with what we needed to do, and the timing is right right now for this place to rise, Latifah said. The project is titled RISE Living. RISE is an acronym for Rita is Still Everything, a nod to her mother, a former schoolteacher in Newark. I grew up around here playing in West Side Park, a block away, Latifah reminisced. My grandfathers hardware store was blocks from here. I drove past this block. I saw what was needed on this block, houses that werent lived in. Some were really dilapidated, and so I thought, Why not here?' NJ.com notes Newarks immense need for new housing, citing that 60% of Newark renters are cost-burdened. An affordable rental unit in Newark is targeted at $763 a month. Read more