By MaryAnn Spoto | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on January 18, 2017 at 1:50 PM, updated January 18, 2017 at 7:16 PM
TRENTON — New Jersey has to build thousands more units for its low-income residents to make up for the 16 years that the state didn’t address those needs, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
In a decision addressing New Jersey’s long-stalled regulations governing affordable housing, the state’s highest court said towns must take into consideration the need for housing that existed within their borders between 1999 and 2015. That’s the so-called gap period when the Council on Affordable Housing failed to adopt new rules.
The 6-0 decision, the latest in decades of Mount Laurel rulings governing affordable housing in New Jersey, rejects the assertion that only 37,000 units are needed and that the gap period calculations are not necessary because that need no longer exists.
“The decision says that the promise of the Mount Laurel decision is real for tens of thousands of families and people with disabilities and the New Jersey Supreme Court said our commitment to fight discrimination remains good law,” said Kevin Walsh, executive director of Fair Share Housing Center, the advocacy group that has taken the lead in enforcing Mount Laurel obligations.
https://www.nj.com/ocean/index.ssf/2017/01/nj_on_the_hook_for_200k_affordable_housing_units_s.html
Seems to me we should have approved what the developers were asking fo a few years ago. Back then the Village had barganing power to reduce the size and height that was proposed at the the time. Instead they rejected the developers proposals altogether. With the recent Supreme Court ruling the Village will be required to provide affordable housing the quantity of which remains to be determined by the court. Unless the Village wants to build it themselves their only recourse is to capitulate to the demands of the developers……and this time around they will get pretty much whatever want.
Ed dont you mean selling out the village for selfish interests?
403 – – where the hell have you been? The Aronson administration completely capitulated to the Developers. That’s why we are in the mess we are in and why we are facing the prospect of thousands of new families moving into town.