PREVENTING DISPLACEMENT
Jersey City is more than a place. It's part of who we are.
Born here. Raised here. Built a life here. Raised a family here. Started a business here. Worked here. Worshipped here. Made memories here. Moved away but never stopped calling it home.
JC Keep It Ours is bringing together residents, former residents, businesses, artists, nonprofits and friends of Jersey City to help prevent displacement and support neighbors facing serious financial pressure from rising property taxes and housing costs.
GIVE TO KEEP JC HOME
Give Back to Jersey City
Help build a community-funded safety net for homeowners facing displacement.
GET HOMEOWNER HELP
Homeowner Assistance
If rising property taxes and housing costs are threatening your ability to remain in your home, learn about the Homeowner Stability Fund.
GET APPLICATION UPDATES
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
This Movement Needs You
Volunteer your time, talent, professional expertise or connections.
HELP KEEP JC OURS.
What if Jersey City helped save Jersey City?
Then:
Government has a role.
Businesses have a role.
Nonprofits have a role.
Foundations have a role.
Artists have a role.
And community has power, too.
JC Keep It Ours is organizing that power.
BECOME PART OF THE SOLUTION
Growth Shouldn't Mean Losing Home.
Jersey City has always changed.
Generations have arrived here, put down roots, raised families, opened businesses, built institutions and created neighborhoods with identities all their own.
But rising property taxes, housing costs, insurance, household expenses and other financial pressures are forcing difficult decisions on many homeowners.
For some families, the question is no longer:
"Can I afford this increase?"
It's:
"How much longer can I afford to stay?"
JC Keep It Ours was created to turn concern into collective action.
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We're mobilizing charitable giving, professional expertise, partnerships, volunteers and community resources to help vulnerable homeowners stabilize their housing while connecting residents to longer-term financial, legal and housing resources.
Give With Confidence. KNOW WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES.
Direct Assistance
Program Administration
Program Administration
Eligible homeowner assistance.
Program Administration
Program Administration
Program Administration
Secure application processing, financial oversight and responsible distribution.
Community Resources
Fundraising & Outreach
Fundraising & Outreach
Education, navigation and connections to additional housing and financial assistance.
Fundraising & Outreach
Fundraising & Outreach
Fundraising & Outreach
Building the donor, sponsor and community network that makes assistance possible.
Everyone Has a Jersey City Story.
Additional Information
Maybe you grew up in Greenville.
Maybe everybody knew your family on the block.
Maybe you graduated from Snyder, Lincoln, Ferris or Dickinson.
Maybe your grandparents arrived through Ellis Island.
Maybe your first apartment was here.
Maybe you left Jersey City thirty years ago.
Maybe you never left.
Home has a way of staying with you.
JC Keep It Ours isn't only speaking to people who live here today.
We're inviting the entire Jersey City family—wherever life has taken you—to help protect what makes this place special.
SHARE YOUR JERSEY CITY STORY
