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May 14th 2013
Court Issues Injunction Blocking Administration’s Attempt to Take Housing Trust Funds
Posted by Kevin Walsh
In a court order released late yesterday afternoon, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court issued an injunction blocking the Christie Administration’s raid on up to $164 million in municipal affordable housing trust funds. The order was issued by three judges in response to an emergent application filed by Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC). The court’s decision blocks a May 1, 2013 resolution adopted by the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) at the request of the Christie Administration. The resolution required municipalities to turn over funds that were not “committed for expenditure,” but the Administration has refused to advise municipalities or the public at large what it must do to protect the funds from seizure. At that meeting, over fifty people showed up from people with special needs to the League of Municipalities to civil rights, environmental, and housing groups to oppose the raid on the trust funds, with not a single speaker in support. Despite that unanimous opposition from strange allies, after a closed-door session COAH approved the raid going forward. (more)
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May 8th 2013
New Report Shows Struggles of Renters Impacted by Sandy
Posted by Kevin Walsh
Today, Fair Share Housing Center is releasing a new report, “Faces of Sandy: A Fair Share for Renters,” showing the devastating impact of a lack of resources for lower-income renters to rebuild through the stories of six families. The report will be officially released today at the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey’s semi-annual Membership Meeting, with Dayna Hartley, an 18-year old high school senior in Ventnor, talking about her family’s struggle to rebuild after Sandy destroyed their home. (more)
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May 3rd 2013
Behind Closed Doors: Shutting the Public and the Truth Out to Raid Funds
Posted by Kevin Walsh
On Wednesday, over 50 people with special needs, their families, advocates, municipal representatives from towns hit by Sandy across the state, and civil rights, housing, and environmental advocates gathered in universal opposition to the Christie Administration’s raid of up to $200 million in municipal housing trust funds. In passionate testimony, they told of an Administration keeping autistic adults on waiting lists; finding no place to go for people leaving state institutions; limiting housing options for people with Down’s Syndrome; and refusing to tell towns what they had to do to spend money to address these needs and Sandy relief. (more)
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May 2nd 2013
Christie Administration Moves to Block Homes for Sandy Relief, New Jerseyans with Special Needs
Posted by Laura Denker
Over the objections of an audience of over 50 municipal leaders, community, special needs, environmental, and civil rights organizations, without a single person testifying in favor of the action, the Christie Administration today moved at a Council on Affordable Housing meeting to begin the process of seizing over $150 million in municipal trust funds dedicated towards families, seniors, and people with special needs. 57 percent of the funds are in the nine counties hardest hit by Sandy. (more)
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April 29th 2013
HUD Requires Christie Administration to Change Sandy Plan To Gain Approval
Posted by Laura Denker
Changes Respond to Administration’s Attempts to Exclude Lower-Income Renters, People with Limited English Proficiency From Sandy Recovery
The Action Plan approved by HUD today for $1.8 billion in federal Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding differs in many ways from the Action Plan submitted by the State just last month. The changes required by HUD begin to address the Christie Administration’s pervasive exclusion of some groups impacted by Sandy from recovery, though more work remains to be done. (more)
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