Banded Together - The Naugatuck Valley Project Story
Badder Homes and Gardens Tour
- To challenge blight in Waterbury neighborhoods, the Project organized a network of inner city neighborhood leaders, held an anti-blight “Badder Homes and Gardens” tour, and secured a City Blight Officer and a new police headquarters.
Cheshire Academy on clean up day
- Faced with the first Waterbury tax revaluation in 20 years, which threatened to shift the tax burden to residential property owners with a likely consequence of tax delinquency and abandonment, the NVP conducted an economic impact study and encouraged the city to create a $2.5 million tax circuit breaker for low-income families.
Cleaning up Chestnut Ave