{"id":1812,"date":"2023-12-18T21:41:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T21:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2024-08-06T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:04:47","slug":"legislation-introduced-to-update-enforcement-of-the-mt-laurel-doctrine-njs-groundbreaking-affordable-housing-model","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/press-release\/legislation-introduced-to-update-enforcement-of-the-mt-laurel-doctrine-njs-groundbreaking-affordable-housing-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation Introduced to Update Enforcement of the Mt. Laurel Doctrine, NJ\u2019s Groundbreaking Affordable Housing Model"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
<\/b>December 18, 2023<\/p>

Contact:
Jag Davies, (786) 393-8100,\u00a0jag.davies@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>

Press Statement: Legislation Introduced to Update Enforcement of the Mt. Laurel Doctrine, NJ\u2019s Groundbreaking Affordable Housing Model<\/p>

TRENTON \u2013\u00a0Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, Senate President Nicholas Scutari, Senator Troy Singleton, and Assemblywoman Yvonne Lopez\u00a0held a\u00a0press conference<\/a>\u00a0this morning to announce legislation that will set a course for future enforcement of the state\u2019s constitutional requirement for every town to provide its fair share of affordable housing, known as the\u00a0Mount Laurel Doctrine<\/a>.<\/p>

The Doctrine was established through a series of watershed New Jersey Supreme Court decisions beginning in 1975. Since 2015, when the New Jersey Supreme Court reinvigorated the Doctrine after decades of political obstruction, New Jersey\u2019s annual affordable housing production has\u00a0nearly doubled\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 providing safe and healthy housing to more than 50,000 people over the last eight years.\u00a0<\/p>

Below is a statement from Adam Gordon, Executive Director of the Fair Share Housing Center:\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cOver the course of New Jersey\u2019s history, fair housing policies have been integral in making our state more inclusive.\u00a0Since 2015, New Jersey has taken bigger steps than ever to create affordable homes, but there’s still much more work to do.<\/p>

Housing shortages hurt everyone in our state \u2014 shrinking our labor supply and handicapping our economic growth.\u00a0 On the other hand,\u00a0access to affordable housing in vibrant communities, with strong schools and employment opportunities, addresses so many other problems at their root.<\/p>

We applaud Senate President Scutari, Speaker Coughlin, Senator Singleton, and Assemblywoman Lopez for prioritizing addressing our state\u2019s housing crisis. The key principles announced this morning, including expediting the process to build affordable homes, abolishing the failed Council on Affordable Housing, and continuing to ban Regional Contribution Agreements, offer a promising framework for moving forward. The Mount Laurel framework must be safeguarded and strengthened to meet the current housing challenges facing our state\u2019s families.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

We look forward to reviewing the legislation \u2014 along with the many other civil rights leaders, housing advocates, and other allies who are working to address the state\u2019s housing crisis \u2014 and providing input on both strengths and areas for improvement in the coming days.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Fair Share Housing Center<\/a>\u00a0is a nonprofit advocacy organization that uses legal, policy, and community-building strategies to dismantle decades of racial and economic discrimination in New Jersey and nationally that excludes people from the opportunity to live in safe, healthy, and affordable housing.<\/p>\n


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDecember 18, 2023 Contact:Jag Davies, (786) 393-8100,\u00a0jag.davies@gmail.com Press Statement: Legislation Introduced to Update Enforcement of the Mt. Laurel Doctrine, NJ\u2019s Groundbreaking Affordable Housing Model TRENTON \u2013\u00a0Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, Senate President Nicholas Scutari, Senator Troy Singleton, and Assemblywoman Yvonne Lopez\u00a0held a\u00a0press conference\u00a0this morning to announce legislation that will set a course for future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairsharehousing.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}