March 25,2017
Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi
Under recent affordable housing rulings by the NJ Supreme Court, our communities are being forced to permit construction of up to ONE MILLION new units of unneeded housing in order to satisfy a fictitious population increase of 30 percent in the next 9 years. Today’s Bergen Record reports that NOBODY COMES HERE. IT’S TOO CROWDED (the story is below). So why is all this housing being forced on New Jersey? Help me stop this while we still can. Please write Assembly Speaker Prieto asmprieto@njleg.org and ask him to post A-4666 which imposes a moratorium on affordable housing settlements and litigation and A-4667 which creates a commission to study the actual need and obligations.
– “New Jersey population continues growing by slim margins,” by The Record’s Dave Sheingold: “New Jersey’s population inched up by the barest of margins last year, continuing a nearly three-decade trend that has seen the state grow at one of the slowest rates in the country, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Lodged firmly in a pattern seen across most of the northeast and parts of the Midwest since before the turn of the century, the number of New Jerseyans increased by a mere 9,000, or 0.1 percent, in 2016. That left the nation’s most densely populated state with 8.94 million residents, a figure that is up 1.7 percent since 2010 and 6.3 percent since 2000. New Jersey’s growth rate this decade is the 14th smallest in the country, far behind increases of 6 to 12 percent seen in the southeast, southwest, west and northern Great Plains.”
https://www.northjersey.com/…/new-jersey-populatio…/99531254/
Are supporters of the court-enforced system of forced building of so-called affordable housing claiming that the population of New Jersey has been prevented from growing because we as a society have failed to build enough affordable housing? An “If you build it, they will come (and stay)” argument, if you will?
Another NIMBY. We love the disabled, poor, elderly…..as long as they’re not here. If NJ’s population is growing by slim margins it’s because i’s offset by so many leaving this horribly managed and overpriced state. Build the damn housing if it’s the law.
just get out your check book ,and btw that’s not what COAH is all about