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It’s time for an update on legal cases involving affordable housing in Princeton and central New Jersey. As we reported last week, a Mercer County Superior Court judge dismissed with prejudice the suit by the Princeton Coalition for Responsible Development against the municipality and the Princeton Planning Board challenging the redevelopment plan for the 238-unit apartment project on the former Princeton Seminary campus on Stockton Street.

A New Jersey Superior Court judge has ended – at least for now — an effort by three dozen municipalities to overturn the state’s new affordable housing process, whose goal is to add thousands more low-cost houses in the state.

Prospective renters aiming to secure an apartment in a group of luxury buildings in Hoboken, New Jersey, will find offerings like kitchens with granite countertops and new energy-efficient appliances, wall-to-wall pristine hardwood floors, terraces outside their windows, perhaps a pool deck right outside their door, and even a dog grooming station.

Fifty years ago, the New Jersey Supreme Court created a groundbreaking affordable housing framework. A new law gives it real teeth

A 2024 law codifying the state’s Mount Laurel doctrine is speeding up construction and shifting local politics, even as lawsuits linger.

On a recent morning, I was listening to an old song by Simple Minds when I stumbled on a newer one called, “Who Killed Truth?” That lyric stuck with me — not because it was poetic, but because it felt like something I’d been circling around for years

Advocates accused New Jersey lawmakers this week of underfunding affordable housing in the $58.8 billion annual budget they approved Monday. The budget diverts money from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which supports the construction and preservation of housing for people earning at or below 80% of an area’s median income.

A developer is a step closer to building affordable housing on the former site of the Circus Liquors store in Middletown after a New Jersey appeals court upheld a decision that stopped the town from taking control of the property to build a commercial development instead.

Picture this: the nurse who bandages your child’s scraped knee, the firefighter who answers your call in the night, the home health aide who tends to your aging parent — all commuting long distances because they can’t afford to live where they work.