Rationalizing the housing debate

The Cranbury Township Committee is moving forward with a useful approach to challenging the state’s latest affordable housing rules. Rather than just complain that COAH — the state agency responsible for ensuring that all towns comply with the Fair Housing Act — would irreparably damage quality of life in Cranbury, the committee is taking on the basic rules, developing its own studies to bolster its case. More towns should take this kind of approach.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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