UPDATE: Tonight’s council meeting has been cancelled. All business is being tabled until Wednesday, March 13. ————— Asbury Park’s city council is scheduled to meet in council chambers tonight, with a closed executive session starting at 5 p.m.; a workshop session at 6 p.m.; and a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Items on the agenda […]

The Asbury Park Housing Authority [APHA] has taken its first step toward the possible demolition of the Boston Way housing complex. The APHA will soon send an application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] requesting permission to demolish the building. Currently, 74 families reside in the Boston Way complex [pictured above]. […]

After several years of turmoil in the Asbury Park Housing Authority [APHA], the Long Branch Housing Authority [LBHA] has stepped in reduce the agency’s debt and make daily operations more efficient. The APHA manages 587 one-to-four-bedroom units in seven public housing complexes: Robinson Towers, Comstock, Lumley Homes, Boston Way, Washington Village, Lincoln Village and Asbury […]

A special prosecutor appointed by the city council to investigate the conduct of housing authority members during the tenure of former executive director Mark Holmes has issued a sweeping exoneration of current authority members and “any Board member who may have recently tendered his or her resignation.” “They appeared to have exercised their duties as […]

An investigation of board members of the Asbury Park Housing Authority may be nearing a conclusion, according to city attorney Frederick Raffetto. In September 2011, the city council passed a resolution calling for hearings “to determine whether members of the housing authority should be removed for inefficiency, neglect of duty and/or misconduct in office”. The […]

The Asbury Park Housing Authority is moving forward with plans to sell the Boston Way apartments [shown above] and relocate its current tenants. The authority approved a resolution at its meeting last night allowing interim executive director William Snyder to apply to the federal department of housing and urban development [HUD] for disposition, or selling, of […]