Affordable Housing

ROBERTS OUTLINES NEXT STEPS ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Speaker Says Towns Need Guarantee of Honest and Realistic Fair Share Obligations

(TRENTON) - Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Jr., today outlined a series of steps to further promote affordable housing opportunities across the state while protecting towns against unfair and unrealistic housing assignments.

ROBERTS STATEMENT ON SENATE PASSAGE
OF LANDMARK AFFORDABLE HOUSING REFORM

(TRENTON) - Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Jr., today hailed the Senate's passage of landmark legislation that would open doors to affordable housing for countless families and end the practice of suburban communities skirting their affordable housing obligations by paying urban centers to build units for low- and moderate-income residents.

COMPREHENSIVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING REFORM PLAN CLEARS ASSEMBLY

Bill Would Implement Most Comprehensive Reform
Of State's Affordable Housing Laws in Over Two Decades

(TRENTON) - The Assembly today passed landmark legislation to reform the state's affordable housing program by implementing more equitable housing practices and increasing affordable housing availability across the state.

COMPREHENSIVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING REFORM PLAN
CLEARS ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS PANEL
Bill Would Implement Most Comprehensive Reform
Of State's Affordable Housing Laws in Over Two Decades

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Appropriations Committee today released legislation to reform the state's affordable housing program by implementing more equitable housing practices and increasing affordable housing availability across the state.

COMPREHENSIVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING REFORM PLAN CLEARS ASSEMBLY PANEL

Bill Would Implement Most Comprehensive Reform of State's Affordable Housing Laws in Over Two Decades

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee today released landmark legislation to reform the state's affordable housing program by implementing more equitable housing practices and increasing affordable housing availability across the state.

"Now we have to contend with building high density housing in swamps and along streams and on landfills and we somehow have to provide services for these new residents. Where does Mr. Doria propose that we get the money to do that?

ROBERTS/WATSON COLEMAN/GREEN UNVEIL PLAN
TO CREATE MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES

Hearing in December, Action Next Year

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Democratic Leadership team today unveiled a 12-point plan aimed at encouraging the production of more affordable housing in New Jersey through elimination of bureaucratic impediments, increased accountability, and abolishment of counterproductive state housing policies.

ROBERTS RENEWS VOW TO FIX AFFORDABLE HOUSING SYSTEM IN WAKE OF PUBLIC ADVOCATE'S REPORT

(TRENTON) - Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr., today issued the following statement regarding the state Public Advocate's report on New Jersey's mounting affordable housing challenge:

MCCULLOUGH ANNOUNCES RECEIPT OF FEDERAL GRANTS
Grants Will Help Local Families Attain The American Dream

            Senator James J. McCullough, (R-Atlantic), announced today that Atlantic County has received more than $2 million in Federal  Department Housing and Urban grants to help families convert from renters to property owners.

WATSON COLEMAN/CARABALLO BILL TO DEDICATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR WORKING POOR

Measure Would Expand Fair Housing Act to Require One-Fourth of Affordable Housing;Units to Be Set Aside For New Jersey's Lowest-Income Families

(TRENTON) - An Assembly Committee today released legislation Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman and Assemblyman Wilfredo Caraballo sponsored to expand the state's "Fair Housing Act" to set aside at least twenty-five percent of all affordable housing units for New Jersey families who earn the lowest incomes in the state.