Paterson’s Habitat has built more than 200 affordable homes, enabling new owners to move out of substandard housing and into clean, comfortable surroundings.
Habitat homeowner T.J. Best, at 26 the youngest member ever elected to the Paterson Board of education, is a man with strong ideas about the need to give back to the community that raised you.
The first member of his family to graduate from college, T.J. explains in this video how he came back to his inner-city neighborhood determined to make a difference.