This document provides a summary of additional resources on affordable housing and municipal obligations in New Jersey, including reports, analyses, articles, and academic research. It includes resources from Fair Share Housing Center, Econsult, Nassau Capital, Richard Reading, The Record, New Jersey Hills Media, NJBIZ, GlobeSt, New Jersey Law Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Rooflines, City Observatory, Next City, Strong Towns, CityLab, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, Stanford Law & Policy Review, Chicago Policy Review, Terner Center for Housing Innovation, Brookings Institution, Urban Institute, Enterprise Community Partners, and Regional Plan Association.
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NJFuture Redevelopment Forum 2016 Affordable Housing Resources
1. Additional Resources on Affordable Housing and New Jersey Municipalities’ Obligations
New Jersey reports and analyses
● David Kinsey report on municipal obligations, prepared for Fair Share Housing
Center
● Econsult critique of Kinsey’s methodology, prepared for the New Jersey State
League of Municipalities
● Econsult executive summary of report on municipal obligations, prepared for client
municipalities
● Nassau Capital evaluation of greenfield inclusionary zoning as an
affordablehousing production strategy, prepared by Nassau Capital for the New
Jersey State League of Municipalities
● Richard Reading preliminary review and assessment of lowand moderateincome
housing needs in Ocean County, prepared for the Ocean County Superior Court
Articles:
● Second state judge rules municipalities responsible for ‘gap’ affordablehousing
obligation (The Record)
● Long Hill joins county group to retain affordablehousing consultant (New Jersey
Hills Media)
● Roseland attempts to reduce affordablehousing obligation (Caldwell Progress)
● Warren Township officials vow to minimize impact of affordablehousing
obligation (New Jersey Hills Media)
● Judge rules against Ocean County towns in affordablehousing case (NJBIZ)
● Union County nonprofit takes independent approach to affordable housing
(GlobeSt.)
● Judge rejects 1000unit cap on affordablehousing obligations (New Jersey Law
Journal)
● Affordablehousing group asks court to reject towns’ estimates of
affordablehousing obligation (Philadelphia Inquirer)
● National: Using the wrong tools to build affordable housing (Rooflines)
● National: How we closed the door on housing (City Observatory)
● National: Connecting big banking to community investment (Next City)
● National: Strong Towns’ weeklong examination of federal housing policy
● National: The urban housing crunch costs the U.S. economy about $1.6 trillion a
year (CityLab)
● National: Can a game help get affordable housing built? (CityLab)
● National: Why the firsttime homebuyer is an endangered species (City
Observatory)
● National: More evidence on the “Dow of cities” (City Observatory)
● National: Can American suburbanism be reversed in a generation? (CNU Public
Square)
2. ● National: Will U.S. housing supply be appropriate for future demand? (Urban Land
Institute)
● National: Inclusionary zoning has a scale problem (City Observatory)
● National: The problem with how we measure housing affordability (City
Observatory)
● National: Housing Landscape 2016 report shows more working families are
renting (National Housing Center)
Academic articles and reports:
● State of the Nation’s Housing (Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies)
● The new exclusionary zoning (Stanford Law & Policy Review)
● All growth is local: Housing supply and the economics of mobility (Chicago Policy
Review)
○ Related report: Why do cities matter? Local growth and aggregate growth
● The future of renting among older adults (Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies)
● Who is actually forming new households? (Terner Center for Housing Innovation,
Berkeley)
● Rethinking local affordablehousing strategies: Lessons from 70 years of policy
and practice (Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute)
● Understanding neighborhood resistance to densification (Chicago Policy Review)
Policy Positions
● An Investment in Opportunity (longterm policy platform from Enterprise Community
Partners)
● The Unintended Consequences of Housing Finance (Regional Plan Association)