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The Housing and Community Development Network and the New Jersey Advocacy Network to End Homelessness, considered last summer’s passage of A500 to be a significant step towards dealing with the state’s relentless housing crisis. It is the most far-reaching housing bill enacted in New Jersey in many years, and includes a number of policy priorities that the Network has promoted to step up the production of affordable housing and ensure that more New Jerseyans can obtain decent homes.
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But we are greatly concerned about the current controversy regarding the effect of this legislation on New Jersey’s local governments, and have issued a new analysis — “Frequently Asked Questions about A.500/S.1783 and the COAH Third Round rules” – in the hope of both dispelling these myths and providing people with strong counter-arguments to the confusion and misinformation.
Click here for the FAQ sheet and for introductory remarks by Network Executive Director Diane Sterner click here.
Most recently, the Network has been defending A500 from the attempt to weaken it posed by S2485, a bill proposed by state Sen. Raymond Lesniak, D-20, and approved in January 2009 by a Senate committee.
The bill would not only place an 18-month moratorium on the 2.5 percent commercial developer’s fee, but also stop all fair-share housing obligations connected with the fee, reimburse the approximately $10 million already collected by the new fee, and prevent towns from using more than $230 million in past developer fees sitting untapped in municipal coffers. While claiming it would spur the economy, S2485 will prevent the creation of housing and jobs.
Click here for a Network policy statement on S2485, here and here for op-eds by Diane Sterner refuting misinformation on the housing reforms and exposing S2485.
Go here and here for more information on A500.
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