Personal Statement:
“FSHC’s work is so inspiring because each time new affordable homes are built, and families get to move in, we get to see real world examples of our efforts to make New Jersey fairer.”
Background/Expertise:
Joshua D. Bauers, Esq. is the Director of Exclusionary Zoning Litigation at Fair Share Housing Center. He joined the organization in 2015 as the Inaugural Maida Public Interest Fellow. His fellowship through the Rutgers University School of Law focused on redevelopment and affordable housing. Since 2015, Mr. Bauers has been involved in all of the Center’s legal work. He has extensive experience in affordable housing litigation – having represented FSHC in hundreds of cases. Josh’s experience includes successfully overturning invalid zoning ordinances and reversing arbitrary and capricious Planning Board denials when municipal boards attempt to block affordable housing developments. He has also successfully negotiated agreements with over 100 of New Jersey’s municipalities for fair share plans to address their constitutional affordable housing obligations, and he has successfully argued before the Appellate Division of the Superior Court. Mr. Bauers attended Rutgers- Camden as an undergraduate and received his degree in Social Work in 2011. He later attended Rutgers Law School. As a Rutgers law student, Bauers received the Mary Philbrook student public interest award, the Dean’s Pro Bono Publico Award for Exceptional Service, and the Eve Biskind Klothen Pro Bono Distinction Award.
