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Philadelphia Inquirer featured letter to the editor
Camden (November 17, 2009) - The Inquirer’s series on Camden’s $175 million recovery legislation offered a refreshing focus on accountability. However, characterizing officials’ recent statement that over $1 billion would be required to address Camden’s woes as mere opinion misses the mark...
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...or read the unedited version of the letter that adds context about the cause and scale of Camden's continued budgetary needs. For more detailed analysis, read CamConnect's most recent report on the Camden City budget.
Camden must move on empty buildings
Courier Post editorial citing CAMConnect's vacancy estimates
(September 20,2009) - Decaying, abandoned properties make neighborhoods unsafe and must be fixed up or razed. Most towns in South Jersey don't even have 9,800 buildings altogether. In Camden, 9,800 is the high end estimate on just the number of abandoned buildings in the city....
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Camden stymies rehab of houses
Camden (September 13, 2009) - On a recent morning, a demolition crew perched on scaffolding above a gaping hole on the corner of Kenwood Avenue, applying stucco to the side of a row home that became exposed when they tore down the vacant unit next to it in mid-August....
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Camden's 'ugliest house' a hazard, but still standing
Camden (August 28, 2009) - As about 40 people looked on, a Camden activist climbed the step at 923 N. 27th St. in the city's Cramer Hill section yesterday and tacked a bright-orange "Imminent Hazard" sign to the entrance of the abandoned shell. It wasn't easy. The unhinged door, propped against piles of debris inside the ruined home, nearly caved in at the touch...
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2010 Census Camden office press briefing - New Jersey Network public television
Camden (August 12, 2009)
Census months away, but promoting begins in NJ
Camden (August 11, 2009) - Census forms won't be sent out until March, but the government has already begun the push to try to get them all filled out. On Tuesday, officials came to Camden — a city where the Census Bureau considers every neighborhood hard to count — to woo help from nonprofit groups. Fernando Armstrong, director of the Census Bureau's Philadelphia region, told a few dozen people from the organizations that they could be a key to getting an accurate count because they already have the trust of people who might be wary of giving the federal government any information...
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Ugliest-home contest focuses on city eye-sores
Camden (July 28, 2009) - St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Cramer Hill is asking residents to vote for the neighborhood's ugliest home. Earlier this month, Father Jud Weiksnar and staff from Camden Churches Organized for People photographed 13 of the most notorious eyesores in the neighborhood, all believed to be abandoned...
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