NJFuture Redevelopment Forum 2016 Affordable Housing Resources
1. Additional Resources on Affordable Housing and New Jersey Municipalities’ Obligations
New Jersey reports and analyses
● David Kinsey report on municipal obligations, prepared for Fair Share Housing
Center
● Econsult critique of Kinsey’s methodology, prepared for the New Jersey State
League of Municipalities
● Econsult executive summary of report on municipal obligations, prepared for client
municipalities
● Nassau Capital evaluation of greenfield inclusionary zoning as an
affordablehousing production strategy, prepared by Nassau Capital for the New
Jersey State League of Municipalities
● Richard Reading preliminary review and assessment of lowand moderateincome
housing needs in Ocean County, prepared for the Ocean County Superior Court
Articles:
● Second state judge rules municipalities responsible for ‘gap’ affordablehousing
obligation (The Record)
● Long Hill joins county group to retain affordablehousing consultant (New Jersey
Hills Media)
● Roseland attempts to reduce affordablehousing obligation (Caldwell Progress)
● Warren Township officials vow to minimize impact of affordablehousing
obligation (New Jersey Hills Media)
● Judge rules against Ocean County towns in affordablehousing case (NJBIZ)
● Union County nonprofit takes independent approach to affordable housing
(GlobeSt.)
● Judge rejects 1000unit cap on affordablehousing obligations (New Jersey Law
Journal)
● Affordablehousing group asks court to reject towns’ estimates of
affordablehousing obligation (Philadelphia Inquirer)
● National: Using the wrong tools to build affordable housing (Rooflines)
● National: How we closed the door on housing (City Observatory)
● National: Connecting big banking to community investment (Next City)
● National: Strong Towns’ weeklong examination of federal housing policy
● National: The urban housing crunch costs the U.S. economy about $1.6 trillion a
year (CityLab)
● National: Can a game help get affordable housing built? (CityLab)
● National: Why the firsttime homebuyer is an endangered species (City
Observatory)
● National: More evidence on the “Dow of cities” (City Observatory)
● National: Can American suburbanism be reversed in a generation? (CNU Public
Square)
2. ● National: Will U.S. housing supply be appropriate for future demand? (Urban Land
Institute)
● National: Inclusionary zoning has a scale problem (City Observatory)
● National: The problem with how we measure housing affordability (City
Observatory)
● National: Housing Landscape 2016 report shows more working families are
renting (National Housing Center)
Academic articles and reports:
● State of the Nation’s Housing (Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies)
● The new exclusionary zoning (Stanford Law & Policy Review)
● All growth is local: Housing supply and the economics of mobility (Chicago Policy
Review)
○ Related report: Why do cities matter? Local growth and aggregate growth
● The future of renting among older adults (Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies)
● Who is actually forming new households? (Terner Center for Housing Innovation,
Berkeley)
● Rethinking local affordablehousing strategies: Lessons from 70 years of policy
and practice (Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute)
● Understanding neighborhood resistance to densification (Chicago Policy Review)
Policy Positions
● An Investment in Opportunity (longterm policy platform from Enterprise Community
Partners)
● The Unintended Consequences of Housing Finance (Regional Plan Association)