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Christie Gets Tough on COAH

TRENTON-The new governor issued an executive order this week that requires the Council on Affordable Housing to halt its certification process for at least the next 90 days.

By Alyson Grala | Updated on February 11, 2010

TRENTON-On Tuesday, Gov. Chris Christie issued Executive Order No. 12, which establishes a five-member Housing Opportunity Task Force to review the Fair Housing Act, State Planning Act and the current and former COAH regulations and methodologies.

Effective immediately, and for the next 90 days with limited exceptions, the Order requires the Council on Affordable Housing to refrain from processing applications “for substantive certification or to implement COAH’s long-delayed Third Round regulations.”

The affordable housing debate has been raging in New Jersey ever since the 1975 court case, Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Township of Mt. Laurel–dubbed Mt. Laurel I–and the subsequent 1983 Mt. Laurel II case. As a result of these trials, the Supreme Court of New Jersey identified a constitutional obligation on the part of municipalities to provide–by their land use regulations–an appropriate choice of housing, including affordable housing to those of low and moderate income.

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