#mtlaurel — Public Fediverse posts

Probably too early to tell, but I am happy to learn that #newjersey appears to be working to fix their broken affordable #housing system, the famous, innovative, but troubled #mtlaurel system #zoning #segregation #shortage #inflation https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/news/562024/20240320b.shtml

1970: New Jersey's Supreme Court strikes down "municipal land-use regulation-the use of the zoning power to advance the parochial interests of the municipality at the expense of the surrounding region and to establish and perpetuate social and economic segregation" #fairhousing #zoning #segregation #newjersey #mtlaurel #history https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/25/archives/jerseys-zoning-laws-are-upset-jersey-zoning-laws-are-struck-down.html?searchResultPosition=1