CHERRY HILL, NJ—Observers of the battle over affordable housing in New Jersey say it's not likely that either the Christie Administration or the state legislature will take advantage of the 90-day time-out the Supreme Court gave to its own decision throwing the matter back into the court system. Gridlock over state budget shortfalls and worries about their reelection campaigns are likely to distract lawmakers from taking any action on the matter.
Since the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in mid-March that affordable housing advocates could go back to court to challenge exclusionary municipal zoning laws, GlobeSt.com has been collecting reaction from a range of observers who have watched the Garden State's affordable housing market lurch from legal challenge to legal challenge.
The Court described as “moribund” the state's Council on Affordable Housing, or COAH, which failed to meet at least three court-mandated deadlines to produce a regulatory process for approving such housing.
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