Provide a vision for North Camden to benefit its existing residents, businesses and institutions. Coordinate planned and ongoing redevelopment efforts. North Camden is a neighborhood of extremes. By traditional measures, it is deeply troubled.
Many families live in poverty.
Many of its residents have an inadequate education and are unemployed. Drug traffic and related violence plague the neighborhood. Abandoned houses, trash and inadequate lighting make it depressing. North Camden also has some very significant and surprising strengths which are less obvious and which rarely get media attention. It has already won significant support, and is fully consistent with the New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan .