Adequate housing isn’t simply a social issue, it’s an economic imperative. New Jersey cannot continue to grow its business base without offering workers an affordable place to live.
Housing and Equity
McMansions Rise, Along With Overcrowding
Friday, July 12th, 2002NJ Housing Even Less Affordable
Friday, May 17th, 2002Finding housing that’s priced within your means is tough for all New Jerseyans. For low- and moderate-income workers in New Jersey, it can be impossible.
The Housing Hunt
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2002New Jersey Future urges the adoption of the growth share approach. Growth share alone will not supply all of the affordable housing New Jersey so desperately needs. But it is a step in the right direction that will help communities better manage sprawling development as they provide much needed housing for New Jersey workers and families.
Increasing Mom’s Choice of Where To Live
Friday, May 11th, 2001Mothers In New Jersey
Hallmark alone offers a choice of 2,375 different Mother Day card designs this year.
Yet whether they are seniors or new to motherhood, New Jersey’s mothers (and their families) face a shrinking choice of where to live.
More than half of New Jersey’s communities (299) have expired plans, or no plans at […]
Property Taxes Drive Urban Distress and Sprawl
Wednesday, January 10th, 2001New Jerseyans shoulder the nation’s highest residential property taxes, claiming about 10 percent of annual median household income.
Where Do We Go From Here?
Friday, December 22nd, 200050 Years Ago in New Jersey
In 1950, we munched Sugar Pops and Ball-O-Fire gumballs for the first time. Most of us (58 percent) lived in places with urban or small town densities where you could walk to stores, movies or even work – Newark, Camden, Maplewood, Princeton, Red Bank, Collingswood. Today, only a third of […]
NJ’s Dirty Secret – Not Enough Housing Affordable To NJ’s Workers
Friday, December 8th, 2000Spillover Sprawl
The newest frontier of New Jersey suburbanization is actually in northeastern Pennsylvania.
The population of Monroe County, Pa. grew by 34 percent in the past decade; Pike County, Pa. grew by a whopping 48 percent. New Jersey’s fastest growing county, Somerset, grew by a comparatively “meager” 20 percent.
Both Pennsylvania counties are served by […]
New Housing
Monday, November 27th, 2000Only a third of all New Jersey households are families with children under 18, making only one in three households a primary market for new single-family homes (per 1990 census).
Yet from 1990 to 1999, 83 percent of all building permits issued in New Jersey were for single-family homes.
This imbalance severely limits the choice of new […]
The Maryland Approach
Wednesday, November 8th, 2000Since 1975, Montgomery County Maryland has required that at least 15 percent of all new homes in any new development of 50 or more homes be affordable to moderate- and low-income families.
Creating mixed-income neighborhoods in such modest proportions has had no adverse impact whatever on the resale value of market-rate homes in this wealthy D.C. […]
