Tell Your State Reps: Get storm survivors home–and let them stay.

​Everyone deserves a full and fair recovery. We need a mortgage forbearance and aid that covers all of us, so storm survivors can get home and stay home.  ​ In the decade between Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Ida, survivors are struggling to get home and whole. We know best what’s broken with our disaster recovery Read More »

Need help with your individual Sandy issues? Here’s how YOU can help YOU.

Need help with your individual Sandy issues? Here’s how YOU can help YOU. Does NJOP help people? Yes. And no.  The New Jersey Organizing Project actually isn’t a service organization.  When we say “service organization,” picture like – Catholic Charities, Affordable Housing Alliance, Ocean County Long Term Recovery Group.  A service organization is one with Read More »

Tell Our Representatives: Grown Ups Show Up to be Part of the Solution.

There is a government shutdown looming that will affect disaster recovery funding for storm survivors across the state, and programs we depend on to feed our families.  We know firsthand that the government isn’t always great at doing its job. From slow disaster aid rollouts to outright eff-ups, we’ve seen our system at its worst Read More »

Jersey Shore Most Influential 2024 — Beach

Jersey Shore Most Influential 2024 — Beach / Asbury Park Press / September 25, 2023 By Jean Mikle They are the people on the front lines — and often, behind the scenes — who work diligently to keep our beaches clean and accessible to all. They are the hardworking activists and advocates who are trying Read More »

Guía sobre la compra de su propiedad por Blue Acres NJ

Por Maryann Morris Blue Acres es el programa de compra de propiedades de Nueva Jersey, administrado por el Departamento de Protección Ambiental (DEP). Compran a los propietarios sus propiedades dañadas por repetidas inundaciones, las derriban y las convierten en espacios abiertos y para control/almacenamiento natural de inundaciones. Esta es una posible opción que pueden usar Read More »

NJ Blue Acres Buyout Guide

By Maryann Morris Blue Acres is New Jersey’s buyout program, run by the Department of Environmental Protection. They purchase properties damaged by repeated flooding from the homeowners, demolish them, and convert them to open space and natural flood storage. This is one potential option for storm survivors to use to get home and whole (or Read More »

New Jersey denies Tropical Storm Ida victims Federal funds to rebuild

New Jersey denies Tropical Storm Ida victims Federal funds to rebuild / September 4, 2023 / Fox Weather By Hillary Andrews, Katie Byrne MANVILLE, N.J. – A change in state policy denies some New Jersey residents earmarked Federal funds to rebuild 2 years after Tropical Storm Ida destroyed their homes. Eric Vaughn was one of Read More »

Ida survivors still trying to recover two years later

Ida survivors still trying to recover two years later / September 1, 2023 / NJ Spotlight By Melissa Rose Cooper Two years after it hit, many New Jersey residents are still struggling to recover from Hurricane Ida. In Milford, Leanna Jones says that despite having flood insurance, the insurance company would not cover a lot Read More »