Irma Gorham News Today

Irma Gorham has said she will retire from her leadership post at the Paterson Housing Authority.

Before demolition, Riverside Terrace had degenerated into a place where shootings and open-air drug dealing took place.

PATERSON — In the eight months since Jessica Jones applied for a rent voucher from the Paterson Housing Authority, the 36-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son have struggled to avoid landing on the streets. The mother and child were staying with “a friend of a friend” when Jones filed her application last August, she said. But that living arrangement ended in October, and afterward, mother and son bounced around among the homes of a grandmother, aunt and grandfather. They keep clothes an...