BOARD MEMBERS WANTED
If you are interested in being a part of an exciting new agency,that promotes equal rights for immigrants, in Monmouth County then this could be a great opportunity for you. If you are willing to commit time, knowledge and are motivated to promote social change PLEASE visit our guestbook and fill out your contact info. For more detailed inquiries, please use the contact information provided below. Thank You. We will be hiring for paid positions late spring -  early summer.
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT:
*Home Ownership for people with low income and / or bad credit
*Transitional Housing
*Emergency Shelter
*Job Trainings
*Free and Sliding Scale Day Care
*Referrals for social and immigration services

We are organizing to serve the underserved communities of NJ by  creating new services and removing barriers to existing services for immigrants.

WHY??
*Because of the high-cost of living in NJ, a family here needs more than twice the income of the national poverty level of $17,960 to be economically self-sufficient. In Monmouth County, a family of four would need to earn $53,044/year just to be self-sufficient.  (- info provided by: Legal Services of NJ poverty research institute, 6/02)

*There is no place in all of America where a full time, minimum wage worker can afford the rent of a two bedroom apartment. A worker would have to earn $14.66 an hour, (minimum wage is $5.15 an hour), in order to afford the median fair market rent for a two bedroom apartment. (- National Low Income Housing Coalition)
CONTACT
Robyn D. Bruno, MSW
[email protected]
LINKS
El Centro Hispanoamericano
MORE LINKS
ARTICLES
1. What are housing rights?Housing rights are human rights.
2. Housing Rights
*A full time job at today's minimum wage pays $10,712 / year, while the national poverty threshold for a family of four is $17,960/year (US Census Bureau, 2002)
*The NJ Department of Labor projects that for the year 2006, 4 out of every 10 NJ jobs (%41.6) will be in low wage occupations; jobs paying less than $25,000 / year
*For immigrants the figures are even grimmer.
*%42 of households receiving food from the Community FoodBank of NJ had to choose between buying food and paying rent. %44 had to choose between paying rent and paying for necessary utilities, such as heat and hot water. (Study: Hunger in America, America's Second Harvest)
"We must be the change we want to see in the world" Mahatma Gandhi
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