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Overview

The Housing Scholars Program was created in 1989 by the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to provide additional and more comprehensive assistance to nonprofit corporations actively involved in the development of affordable housing. Partnering with Wachovia in 1998 allowed us to offer internship opportunities to more students and broaden the scope of services provided by nonprofit organizations to include community and economic development activities. Our university partner, New Jersey Institute of Technology, has provided administrative, payroll, and fiscal services for the program over the past 19 years.

This innovative program offers a paid, full-time placement for ten weeks during the summer to graduate and undergraduate students attending the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Rutgers University (Camden, New Brunswick and Newark Campuses), Monmouth University, New Jersey City University, and Ramapo College. Funding from NJDCA and Wachovia Bank pays 70% of Scholars’ wages. However, the participating nonprofit agency must contribute 30% of the wages. Undergraduates receive $13.00 per hour; graduate students are paid $15.00 per hour—for a maximum of 350 hours.

A maximum of 30 students majoring in architecture, civil engineering, urban studies and planning, management, public policy and administration, social work (international and community development program), and geoscience/geographic information systems will be selected to participate in the program. Before beginning their internships, students attend a week-long orientation and training program designed to explore the development process and the emerging role of nonprofits in affordable housing, and community and economic development.

The Wachovia/DCA Housing and Community Development Scholars Program is coordinated at the central level by DCA’s Division of Community Resources and is administered by NJIT’s Division of Career Development Services.

 Wachovia Bank and the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Housing Scholars Program places college students in paid summer internships with non-profit housing developers. 

The program is designed to influence positively the creation of affordable housing by:

Introducing students to the issues and policies surrounding the development of affordable housing in New Jersey, and

Providing much needed technical support to non-profit organizations involved in housing development.

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Please Contact for Information Related to Agencies:

Rosalind Newton

Director, Career Development Services

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Campbell Hall, 5th Floor

University Heights

Newark, NJ 07102

Phone: 973.596.6590

E-mail: newton@adm.njit.edu


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Darryl Johnson

Program Manager

NJDCA Div. of Community Resources

PO Box 811, 5th Floor

Trenton, NJ 08625-0800

Phone: 609.292.6831

E-mail: djohnson1@dca.state.nj.us

Please Contact for Information Related to Students:

Vivian Lanzot

Asst. Director, Career Development Services

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Campbell Hall, 5th Floor

University Heights

Newark, NJ 07102

Phone: 973.596.3642

E-mail:  Lanzot@njit.edu