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Article: SENS. TURNER, RICE MEASURE TO CREATE JOINT COMMITTEE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPROVED BY SENATE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 8, 2007
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The New Jersey State Senate Democrats issued the following news release:
A proposal by Senators Shirley K. Turner and Ronald L. Rice that would create a new joint committee in the Legislature to monitor the State's efforts in providing affordable housing to its residents was approved by the full Senate today by a vote of 38-0.
"New Jersey's widespread affordable housing shortage is now becoming an affordable housing crisis," said Senator Turner, D-Mercer. "A study released just this week said that half of all Jersey renters can't afford a basic two-bedroom apartment. That means that we are not doing enough to help over half a million of the most vulnerable New Jerseyans have a clean, safe ...