New Jersey is experiencing a housing affordability crisis, one that hits lower-income households particularly hard. But New Jersey has a unique set of laws requiring local governments to zone for affordable housing, and a new report demonstrates that these laws work when enforced.
Posts Tagged ‘Affordable housing’
New Report Highlights Link Between Local Zoning and Housing Affordability
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023New NJF Report Explores How to Promote Racial Integration in NJ Municipalities
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022New Jersey is paradoxically one of the most diverse and most segregated states in the nation. The state has grown more diverse over the last two decades, with its non-Hispanic white percentage shrinking from two-thirds of the state population in 2000 to a little more than half as of the 2020 Census, with notable proportional growth among Hispanic and Asian-American communities. But New Jersey’s macro-level diversity often does not translate into integration at the local level, and places that are integrated at the local level don’t always stay that way.
The Risk to Our Roofs: Considering and Harnessing the Climate-Housing Nexus
Monday, July 11th, 2022New Jersey faces major challenges with the dual threat of climate change and housing unaffordability. While at face value, these two issues seem to pertain to natural or built environments, respectively, the two are inseparably linked and must be addressed in tandem.
The State of New Jersey’s Housing Market: We Need More
Monday, July 11th, 2022New Jersey is facing an acute housing shortage. Nationally, we are millions of housing units short of meeting demand, and the situation is proportionally worse in New Jersey. That was the big-picture message delivered by Debra Tantleff, founding principal of Tantum Real Estate, to kick off the session on The State of Housing in New Jersey at the New Jersey Planning and Redevelopment Conference on June 16, hosted jointly by New Jersey Future and the New Jersey chapter of the American Planning Association.
Young People are Leaving New Jersey: Exploring Potential Explanatory Variables
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022With the youngest members of the demographically large Millennial generation (roughly, those born between 1981 and 1996) aging into young adulthood, the number of people between the ages of 25 and 44 increased nationwide by 3.5% between 2015 and 2019. In New Jersey, however, the population in this age range declined by 1.2% over the same time period, with high housing costs appearing as a major motivating factor.
Another Nail in the McMansion Coffin?
Monday, February 14th, 2011Last month, we reported on a study by the National Association of Homebuilders showing that young people prefer to live in an urban environment with easy access to amenities, rather than the suburban cul-de-sac neighborhoods in which they grew up.
New Jersey Future Statement on S1
Thursday, June 10th, 2010Senator Ray Lesniak. Source: Press of Atlantic City
The following statement was issued by Peter Kasabach, Executive Director of New Jersey Future, on June 10, 2010, following the passage of S-1 in the New Jersey Senate:
“We have little doubt that the good folks looking to re-shape the state’s affordable-housing policy are […]
Trenton and Jersey City Receive HOPE VI grants from HUD
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010NJ Senator Robert Menendez at the Miller Homes site in Trenton. Source: Author
Of the six cities that were awarded a total of $113.6 million in the latest round of grants for the HOPE VI program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), two were in New Jersey. Trenton and Jersey City […]
Governor’s Housing Opportunity Task Force to Assess State Planning Act
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Governor Christie signing Executive Order 12 (Governor Photos/Tim Larsen)
Earlier this week Governor Christie issued Executive Order No. 12 , which creates a “Housing Opportunity Task Force” to recommend how the state should address a variety of questions related to providing affordable housing.
The task force is charged with reviewing not only the Fair Housing Act and COAH […]
Challenges Abound, Opportunity Knocks as Christie Prepares to Take Office
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Charting New Jersey on a path toward sustained economic growth will require many things, not the least of which is a resurrected state planning process.
