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In New Jersey, Pivotal Affordable Housing Decision Turns 50

March 28, 2025 | Miriam Axel-Lute

The Mount Laurel Doctrine is credited with helping to create 75,000 affordable homes in New Jersey. But, of course, it hasn’t been a simple panacea either.

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Laura Foote (in yellow shirt at center) at a counter-protest to a rally opposing statewide upzoning bill SB 827. She's surrounded by fellow protestors who are holding signs that read "We Need More HOmes" and "More Homes for All."
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YIMBYs: Friend, Foe, or Chaos Agent?

February 19, 2019 | Miriam Axel-Lute

The relationship between pro-building “Yes in My Back Yard” activists, longtime housing advocates, and anti-displacement organizers varies across the country, but has often been fraught with difficulties. Is there a way forward?

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NJ’s COAH: Finding Common (and Vacant) Ground

March 10, 2009 | Matthew Brian Hersh

As New Jersey’s Council on Affordable Housing, or COAH, continues to defend its plan to use a growth-share model to encourage towns to build working class and affordable housing, we’re […]