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Article: SPEAKER ROBERTS INTRODUCES LANDMARK AFFORDABLE HOUSING REFORM LEGISLATION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 13, 2008
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The New Jersey Assembly's Democrats issued the following news release:
Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Jr., today introduced landmark legislation that would open doors to affordable housing for countless families and end the practice of suburban communities skirting their affordable housing obligations by paying urban centers to build units for low- and moderate-income residents.
"New Jersey's affordable housing laws have failed to live up to the promise of providing homes for low- and moderate-income residents while having the insidious side-effect of concentrating poverty in our inner cities," said Roberts (D-Camden). "Today the Legislature is embarking on a path to transform New ...