The NJ Legislature's 1st Order of Business - Eliminate Affordable Housing

"We recognize that changes are needed to the COAH process, but what's really broken in this state isn't housing, but the fact that we aren't planning for our future, to link homes, jobs, transportation, and environmental protection in a way that gets us sound, sustainable growth," Staci Berger – Housing & Community Development Network in a statement to the press about a bill in the NJ Legislature that would eliminate the Council on Affordable Housing.

During the toughest economic times to hit our state, the first order of business for the NJ Legislature is not increasing funding to our overstretched food banks, or providing job training programs it is the complete elimination of the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH). The bill S-1 would turn authority over how much affordable housing should be built to the individual municipalities. Just over two years ago these same municipalities we ordered by way of a new law from the NJ legislature to stop paying poorer communities to build their share of housing for them in an attempt to end decades of economic segregation.