A New Jersey Appellate Court has ruled that a lack of sewer infrastructure doesn’t exempt Colts Neck from its affordable housing obligation.
By requiring every municipality to create its fair share of affordable homes, the Garden State offers a compelling model for other states to build on.
Black and Latino New Jersey residents are far less likely than other residents to own their homes, according to a poll by The Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University.
At a community forum in 2023, Jim Kyle, a municipal planner, approached the dais and spoke about focusing “more density in town and near public transit.” Kyle was working with the city to redevelop land in the town’s Western Section, a wealthy, tree-lined neighborhood of Tudor and Colonial homes near downtown.
All 564 New Jersey municipalities this week faced a deadline to comply with the state’s affordable housing law. That means they had to adopt ordinances stating how they’ll plan for such residences over the next decade. It’s been a contentious journey. Several towns are still not on board, even as housing advocates say the state needs more than 200,000 new units to help address the affordability crisis.
A North Jersey town is facing a legal challenge over a plan that could allow a massive data center to be built on a 34-acre site instead of affordable housing.
New Jersey’s statewide battle over growth, rooted in a once loosely enforced 1970s law against racial segregation, has turned “vicious” in Princeton.
New Jersey has some of the most expensive homes in the nation. A 2024 law that takes effect today attempts to make the Garden State affordable for homebuyers. It requires all municipalities to complete and submit an affordable housing plan and to pass any necessary ordinances to implement it, no later than today.
