Affordable housing is disproportionately concentrated in just a few places in New Jersey. According to Department of Community Affairs (DCA) inventory*, more than half of the state’s affordable housing units are located in just 17 municipalities: Newark, Jersey City, Trenton, Atlantic City, Paterson, Camden, Hoboken, East Orange, Elizabeth, West New York, […]
Housing and Equity
COAH Ruling Ignores today’s Affordable Housing Needs
Thursday, March 15th, 2007RCA’s: More Harm Than Good?
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Since 1988, more than 10,000 units of affordable housing obligations have been transferred from “sending” municipalities to “receiving” municipalities under the Regional Contribution Agreements (RCAs) allowed by Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) regulations.
RCAs allow the sending municipality to pay the receiving municipality to satisfy part of the sender’s affordable housing […]
Nowhere to Live
Friday, September 29th, 2006New Jersey has the fifth-least affordable housing in the nation, according to the U.S. Census. One in four New Jersey households is saddled with a housing burden, meaning they spend at least 35 percent of their gross income on housing costs.
The lack of more affordable options in housing, including townhomes and apartments, puts New Jersey […]
Gas Prices and Smart Growth
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006With gasoline prices breaking $3 a gallon this month, many New Jerseyans have renewed reason to mourn the steady disappearance of jobs from transit-accessible communities.
A study of New Jersey’s competitiveness released May 2 by the Brookings Institution shows that New Jersey counties boasting some of the nation’s most extensive […]
Prosperity at Risk
Friday, April 21st, 2006
No state has lost more jobs in the high-tech industry in the past decade than New Jersey, according to an analysis of New Jersey’s competitive position by the Brookings Institution, in partnership with New Jersey Future.
New Jersey lost nearly 30,000 (28,083) high-tech jobs between 1995 and 2004. California, in contrast, gained nearly 50,000 such […]
Sprawling Migration Patterns
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006New Jersey is growing naturally at almost exactly the same pace as its residents are moving out.
The Gubernatorial Race
Friday, October 21st, 2005Without new ways of managing growth and without fixing the systems that drive development, including the property tax system, New Jersey will never reach genuine prosperity.
Urban Turnaround
Friday, July 29th, 2005The market seeking urban housing options is making itself felt in New Jersey, according to the latest Census figures.
Land Use and Equity
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005New Jersey is the most segregated state in the nation by income, when comparing the family incomes of children in public schools.
Family Unfriendly towns
Friday, January 28th, 2005Today’s property tax system drives communities to zone out families and to chase and compete for non-residential development, even when that development changes community character, erases open lands and adds to traffic.
