299 of the state’s 566 municipalities have submitted or plan to submit affordable-housing plans to the Council on Affordable Housing or to the courts
Redevelopment
Redevelopment Offers Towns Opportunity
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009NJ Can Brighten its Future by Stretching Stimulus Dollars
Thursday, January 15th, 2009President-elect Barack Obama has called for “the largest investment in infrastructure since the creation of the interstate highway system” to be a part of the forthcoming economic stimulus package. The price tag for this stimulus could approach $1 trillion.
NJ Embraces Smart Growth, and Honors those Who Practice It
Monday, June 2nd, 2008New Jersey Future’s annual Smart Growth Awards highlights captures the energy that is transforming places around the state.
Redevelopment: A Blueprint for Sustainability
Thursday, March 6th, 2008New Jersey is the most developed state in the nation—and not by a little bit. According to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Garden State leads its nearest competitor in this category, Rhode Island, by about 25 percent.
Brownfields: Urban Blight or Redevelopment Opportunity?
Friday, December 7th, 2007Former industrial sites, known as brownfields, are a prominent feature of New Jersey’s urban landscape. More than 10,000 brownfields have been identified in the state.
NJ Still Has Room to Grow. But Where…and How?
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007A recent study commissioned by the Council on Affordable Housing found that: Of New Jersey’s 4.98 million acres, 1.24 million (25 percent) are vacant and unconstrained. These vacant acres have the capacity for 1,169,697 residential housing units and 1.63 billion […]
Updated Census Numbers Deliver Mixed Message to NJ
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007New Jersey has lost its No. 1 status in terms of median household income. The Garden State was the wealthiest in the nation as of the 2000 Census, but Maryland has now surpassed it (and leaped past former No. 2 […]
In Search of a Balance between Property Rights and Redevelopment
Friday, July 27th, 2007Gallenthin v. Paulsboro: In Search of a Balance between Property Rights and Redevelopment Although the recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision in Gallenthin v. Paulsboro was hailed in some quarters as a victory for property rights over the power of […]
Old Cities, New Potential?
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program has examined 376 U.S. cities and characterized 80 of them as “older industrial cities,” based on their substandard performance on a number of economic indicators, including employment growth, number of new business establishments, poverty […]
Redevelopment on the Rise
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007The Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey’s recent “Cities in Transition” report identified 30 New Jersey cities as showing multiple signs of fiscal and socioeconomic distress. Between 1990 and 1999, these largely built-out cities accounted for only 5.9 […]