Revised guidelines for N.J. affordable housing ie “Ghetto Building” causes confusion
MAY 8, 2014, 11:14 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014, 11:32 PM
BY REBECCA D. O’BRIEN AND MICHAEL PHILLIS
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD
New guidelines designed to determine how much affordable housing will be needed in New Jersey’s 565 towns over the next 20 years are already being criticized by housing experts as insufficient and opaque less than two weeks after they were unveiled to the public.
Some have even said the proposed rules, which estimate that more than 50,000 homes need to be built, could violate the state constitution, because they rely on calculations that have been struck down by the state Supreme Court.
What’s next
The proposed regulations for affordable housing are subject to review by the Office of Administrative Law and will be published next month in the June 2, 2014, New Jersey Register. A public hearing on the proposed rules has been scheduled for July 2. The final rules are supposed to be adopted in October and take effect Nov. 14.
The rules approved by the Council on Affordable Housing on April 30 are New Jersey’s latest effort to meet the state’s constitutional mandate that towns allow for construction of affordable housing. In addition to the new construction, the guidelines also identify more than 62,000 homes currently occupied by low- and moderate-income families that need to be fixed up.
But the mandate has existed only in the abstract in recent years; Governor Christie tried to disband the council in 2011, calling it broken and ineffective. The Christie administration also had its eyes on millions in towns’ affordable housing funds that would have been turned over to the state because they had not been used.
Last summer, the state Supreme Court overturned Christie’s bid to disband the council and in September ordered the council to approve new affordable housing obligations that take into account unfulfilled obligations from decades past, houses in need of rehabilitation and future demand.
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First we built them apartment buildings, which they destroyed.
Then we had to spend more money to level them.
Now we build them townhouses.
Its a matter of time until they destroy them too when they want something else.
Its an absolute disgrace.
Get rid of COAH once and for all let it die!
Who is “we” and who is “them”?
“Ghetto Building” coming to Ridgewood thanks to Big Al The Developer Friend and the other two Amigos along with the Chamber of Commerce.
You’re seriously that clueless? Take drive to Newark, aka SEWER(k).
We=the taxpayers.
Them=the residents of the public housing.
He is that clueless and he votes.