A major overhaul of New Jersey affordable housing policy cleared the State Assembly with ease on Monday with the support of the Democrat majority.
Chamber Republicans, working with a minority further reduced by stinging losses in last year’s legislative races, could do little but pad the record with their objections to the planned changes.
Freshman Assemblyman Michael Inganamort (R-24), a former mayor, warned that the legislation is a gut punch to Garden State farmers which, he noted on X later in the day, “increases affordable housing obligations on most NJ towns and reduces the deadline by which they must develop and comply.” The Assemblyman panned what he described as bad policy for the state’s rural Highlands region.
Click here to read the legislation. The Senate version is awaiting consideration by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee.
Other changes to the current regime include a new threshold for the percentage of age-restricted affordable housing, shortening of the deed restriction for rental units, and the largely symbolic termination of the defunct COAH.
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